LIKE HOMES.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18703, 1 August 1932, Page 9

LIKE HOMES.

MODERN POLICE STATIONS. A police station, according to Woollahra aldermen, is not an asset to a high-class residential area (says a Sydney paper). In fact, the aldermen go so far as to say that it causes a depreciation of near-by land values. Accordingly the Mayor (Alderman Latimer) was congratulated by his confreres on his move to have a station built, not on a site suggested by the Police Department, but at the corner of Victoria and Park Roads, Bellevue Hill, where the old tramway shed stofd. “We have never heard of a station depreciating land values before," said the assistant secretary of the Police Department (Mr A. Sticpwich) 1 “Police stations nowadays aro designed by Public Works architects, so that they harmonise with their surroundings. You would not know the new bungalow type of station at llaber/leld from one of the nice homes around it. Such a station could hardly affect land values." The town clerk at Canterbury (Mill. A. Brouff) said that the new station at Gampsie might be taken for a home, and had not caused land values to drop. j "There was a hue and cry when a - station wag. erected at Turramurra,” said a Sydney estate agent, "hut' I don’t think land values have suffered as predicted."