NEW LAW COURTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1081, 21 March 1911, Page 3

NEW LAW COURTS.

4 AT AUCKLAND. A new building to house the lower courts, civil and criminal, -n Auckland, is .to be erected in Victoria tJuailrant, and tho design of it suggests that die locality iVill be considerably improved 111 appearance by it. It is-to bo built 111 stone. The public office will be oil the ground floor,, and plenty of accommodation is arranged for the staff aud tho public. The I'olice Court will be on the ground floor also. The Judicial Chamber H is expected, will bo a great improvement oil anv such Chamber used for police business in any other city m the Dominion. The interior will not be elaborately decorated, but so far as contingencies can be anticipated, everything has been arranged to facilitate the business of tlie Court. The magistrate s oftce opens on to the Court, and conveniently placed round the Chamber are waiting rooms, which, when well'equipped, ought to provide comfortable quarters for witnesses. The entrance for the public will bo at the rear of the building. Upstairs there will be the Magistrate s Civil Court, and it will lie a spacious and well-ventilated apartment. Adjoining the Court room are to bo waiting rooms for witnesses, and on the same floor will also be provided a room for the Law Society's Library, and consulting rooms for solicitors. A spacious room will be allotted to. justices of the peace, who may bo called upon to deal with ordinary business when a magistrate is not available. Downstairs there will We rooms for male and female prisoners, and upstairs there will be a room, in the nature of a padded cell, in which lunatics awaiting examination may be kept in safe custody.—".Star."