THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS SITE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2152, 24 April 1886, Page 3

THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS SITE.

TO Tllh EDITOR. Sin, - After e\erythmg lias gone t><> smoothly and creditable to everyone concerne'l in respect to the Hamilton borough lonn. It appears a pity tohave to mention what must seem a sorious obstacle to the fiirtlier hucccMt of the project. That is, thu truly unfoitunate site selected by the Hon. Defence Minister for the public builduiß-. I will hay thtt hull the whole borough bepn searched from one end to the othei, a more inconvenient bite could not pos-ibly have been chosen. I will mention a tb\\ <>i what I consider tho chief objections. lam assuming that the building will comprise nil thu public office* at pienentin tho to .mi ; namely: — Post olhc\ telegraph ollice, couit house, borough othec*, <!tc. The po.st and telegraph oHice requires to be, of all places, in a central and accessible situ ition, with a frontage if possible to the main street. The present Mte comprises all these advantages, and in removing it to another, care should be taken to preserve them, and in the site indicated by Mr BUlance none of them exist. A frontage cannot be procured to the main sheet, and the pUoe is altogether out of the way for the business people. With so many better ■ites available it would be folly to eiect the Post and Telejjrajjh-office on the hill. These arguments will apj)ly with more or less force to the other offices. Other and wider objections i>xi*t, and with your leave, Mr Editor, I will try to point them out. The first is that the hill on which it ■is proposed to plant these buildings will, in the course of a veiy .short time, be required to fill up and make a better approach to the traffic bridge, for it cannot be supposed that the present land span will be continued when the question of a permanent struc .ture comes to bo consideicd. A large •portion will also be lequired to level thn allotment immediately opposite, and &o render it of value. Anothrr, to my 1 mind a serious, objection U the fact that in casu of fire no water supply wo can get would send water over the building, because tho highest point on which wo could place :t reservoir would not be high enough. There is to bo a publ'c meeting of the burge3ses to consider the proposal to spend another thousand pounds on these buildings, and it would be well to consider this question of .lite at the same time.— l am, yours truly, Burgess.