PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 16 February 1918, Page 3

PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE

INTERIOR REMODELLED. During tho last two months the interior of the Public Trust building on the corner of Lambton IJuay and Stout Street has undergone an entire change, and those' who knew the building intimately three months ago would scarcely recognise it to-day. The new Public Trustee (Mr. Robert Triggs) found the office arrangements somewhat cramped and out of date in their relation one to the other. On the ground floor, there has always been congestion at the doors of the public office, owing to the number of people that are usually standing there waiting to use the elevator. To mako more room a new elevator well has been constructed some six or eight feet back from tho present one, and a new lift is being provided. Handily placed, there is a public inquiry office, opening off the foyer, which will also contain a private telephone exchange, communicating with every department in the building. Partitions have "been removed, and walls removed, to make the public office lighter, more commodious, and generally observable by the heads of the staff.' Where there were solid partitions are now clear glass screens, which admit a maximum of light, and are a deal more wholesome and cheerful than the old partitions. The typists have a special compound of their own on the northern side of the room, but they are all visible from the main office through the long glass screen. This is modern office arrangement on tho American plan, and is cortainly an improvement on what was. On the first floor the solicitors' rooms have been -improved and extended, the typists of tho legal department aro located behind a glass screen at tho far end of the room,'and tho office of the Public Trustee has been divided into two, and entirely refurnished. The wills and trusts branch is now placed 011 the second floor, under better office conditions than heretofore. On the third floor all the partitions have been removed, and the door has been thrown into one big. well-lighted office for the mortgage branch. The fourth floor has been converted into a big staff lunch room, with a kitchen, rest room, etc., very comfortable and complete.