GOVERNMENT RECORD OFFICE—. A most colourful piece of early Dutch architecture is the Old Record Office, the building where the ancient archives are kept. This building was the former private residence of Governor General Reinier de Klerk of Netherland India. When he built this Palace he was taken to task by the influential merchants of the town for being so foolhardy as to venture to live so far out in the country and so jar from the protection of the guns of the Citadel of Batavia.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22185, 31 January 1942, Page 6
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86GOVERNMENT RECORD OFFICE—. A most colourful piece of early Dutch architecture is the Old Record Office, the building where the ancient archives are kept. This building was the former private residence of Governor General Reinier de Klerk of Netherland India. When he built this Palace he was taken to task by the influential merchants of the town for being so foolhardy as to venture to live so far out in the country and so jar from the protection of the guns of the Citadel of Batavia. Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22185, 31 January 1942, Page 6
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