NEW PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 285, 13 August 1910, Page 2

NEW PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS.

lii the course of his speech in laying the foundation stone of the new post office at Wellington, the Prime Minis- * ter referred to unother undertaking, which the Government had in hand at that moment. This was the alterations to he made near Parliamentary Piiiiicjings. '■ When tl»e alteration anq widening of the streets was completed, and the whole of the Parliamentary Buildings thrown into one block there would be available for future building operations more land suitable for that purpouse than had ever been available for the Government, with the authority of Parliament, to make übo of. When the Government's proposals were cai ■ ried out with regard to'the Parliarrmn tary Buildings, street alterations, and the acquisition of Quintbn's, corner, the scheme, including the coat of the new Governor's house, Would prove to be very much more economic than any qther scheme, which could have been devised. (A voice: Yon tell it well!) An-area;.: would be provided for future build;- ; ing operations tit that end of city, which before many years W<Mlc|> be required for the u,se of the at the end where the Executive rn|ist for all time, he supposed, be locate^ k ■