GOVERNMENT OFFICES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10898, 12 May 1921, Page 10

GOVERNMENT OFFICES

MULTIPLICITY IN DUNEDIN. The multiplicity of Government offices in Dunedin is remarkable, and a doubt may reasonably arise whether they are all required (says the "Otago Dally Times"). when the new post office is to be erected to enable a number of departments to be grouped, as regards accommodation, no one appears to know. An enumeration of the various Government offices in should prove interesting—thought it is not certain that the list covers the whole of trie departments. Tho first are recognised Government establishments —the railway buildings, etc., the telegraph office, the Lav/ Courts, the gaol, the, Kensington Drill Hall, and the Government life Insurance Department. The Post Office is, temporarily, it is said, now located in fihe Garrison Hall, to which fairly extensive additions are just being completed. The old post office in Princes street is to a certain extent empty, but the Lands Department still have offices there. The old police station, at th» corner of Gaol and Castle streets, continues to house a number of Government departments, 'but there are now manv vacant there. The Mines De.partment and the Profiteering Investigation Committee have offices in the Government Life Insurance buildings. The Public Works Department has rented apartments in the New Zealand Express Company’s buildings; the Tourist Department and Agricultural Department has its offices ’n Rattray street, and tho Government Shipping Office is in Vogel -street.