WELLINGTON NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 21 May 1914, Page 3

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(SVZCIAL TO "THE TRESS.' , ) WELLINGTON, May 20. Tlie Government has decided to call for tenders for alterations to the printing office hero, involving an cxpendituro of approximaEely £14.000 ■or £15,000. P'or 6ome' years now the position at tho printing office has been most unsatisfactory, a large number of male j and female employees being cramped up in altogether inadequate tion. Tho Government, recognising that this position, in the interest of tho employees, was acute, obtained a medical report upon tNs conditions, and this was of so emphatic a nature as to make them decide that improvements wero urgent. There are five hundred people employed in the building. The damage to Government Joouseat Auckland is not so serious as was at iirfet thought. The loss by fire will not amount to more than £250 or £300. liepairs will be' put in hand at once. Mr Harold Beauchamp, who has taken a keen interest in Lord Grey's Dominions House scheme, has received a cable message from London to £he effect that the London County Council baj. extended the option over tlie Dominions House- proposed site. This would appear to indicate that the County Council thinks that something may yet come of the proposal.