LACKING IN COMFORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 3

LACKING IN COMFORT

QUARTERS FOR POLICE AT’OKJ - AND CONDITIONS (Special to tins Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. Uncomfortable, draughty, and ill* ventilated quarters arc the lot of single constables who live at the Auckland jiolice bavriteks which are located on the upper floors of the gaunt old-fashioned building, which constitutes the police headquarters in the eitv.

The fresh appearance of the ground lloor offices is entirely at variance willi the unprepossessing condition of the men’s quarters, where may he seen the cracked plaster of the walls along the side of the stairways and huddled cubicles, which are the “rooms” of the constables.

On tiie top floor there is a barnlike room, about- 28ft. by 32ft., into which 11 cubicles are crowded, each one measuring approximately 7ft. by Sit. Into these spaces are arranged with the maximum effect a bed, a dressing table and the personal effects of eaelt man.

On the other side of the top of the landing seven other men are similarly quartered. In another part of the building where cubicles are located it is doubtful whether the natural light tillers through. There are only two bathrooms and one lavatory for 18 men on the top lloor, and on the lower floor there is a bathroom with only a cold water tap. In another part of the building there are three hot showers. Those men who prefer hot baths to showers must ,await their turn in the two bathrooms.

Neither of the two top floors has any heating equipment in the men’s cubicles, and the men suffer the utmost discomfort in the winter. in the summer the place is equally unpleasantly warm.