A NEEDLESSLY EXPENSIVE BUILDING.
_, _, nnm new Government Printing Office Is not . we learn, likely to be raady for ocoupatlon In time for next seßßion, so the unfortunate staff will be compelled to undergo another session's work m the Present wretched premises.. We hope that when Parliament meets strict enquiry wlll bo mado lcto aII fcno circumstances connected with the erection of thin new Printing Office. It has been a most extraordinary time In course of ereotior?, and we are informed that the ooßt of alterations and extras will amount to an enormous sum. It la still being pulled abonfc > altered, and Improved— or the reverse. It should have been completed for occupation many months ago, If the matter is fully enquired into, it will, we b^leve, be found that there has been a moßt scandalous waste of money over this building, and that a suitable Printing Office, quite eqml to all the requiremonta oi the department, and better adapted to tnem ' coald havo been erected for somethlDg like na!f whafc the Present building wlli cost « In fchjH caße t at leaßt . tUe Publlo Works Department can nob attempt to wrigglo out of its direct responsibility. (Wellington "Poat.").
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 2 April 1888, Page 3
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197A NEEDLESSLY EXPENSIVE BUILDING. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 2 April 1888, Page 3
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