MUNICIPAL CHAMBERS.
TO BE ERECTED OUT OF INSURANCE FUND. ... /. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS APPROVED. A special meeting of the Borough Council was held last night to consider the sub-committee’s report in connection with the erection of Municipal Chambers. The Mayor reported that the sub-committee had met and conferred with Air AL R. Varnham, the architect appointed, and he had submitted tentative plans and specifications for the work. As a doubt existed as to the legality of using the insurance money on the x-e-erection of Alunieipal Buildings and public reading room and library destroyed by fire, the mattei-, was submitted to the Municipal Association’s solicitor, Air T. F. Martin, and the following was his reply:— , “The material facts stated are that a. building that served as Council Chambex's and Public Library and had been ex-eeted out of a loan raised in 1906 for the ei’ectibn of Council Chambers and Library has been burned down, and the insurance money received. The insurance money is not enough to provide for a library .in addition to the Council Chambers and the Council wishes to expend the money in erecting Council Chambers only. Since the fire the binary hooks have been housed in another building, the^. Town Hall. 1 am asked to advise whether the proposed expenditure would be legal. In my opinion it would. No part of the loan money was earmarked for the library portion of the old building, and. the increased cost of building at present time is notorious. The main point in the 'matter is that the building should be reinstated out of the insurance money so far as it will go. In the circumstances, I do not consider it necessary in point of law, that the uses to which the reinstated building shall be pul should include provision for a library.” After a short discussion it was decided that the sketch plan submitted be approved and that the architect be requested to prepare detailed plans and specifications for both brick and concrete with eleven feet internal wall, roof to be as shown, plans and specifications to ho submitted to the next meeting of the Council, in the meantime sketch plans of facade giving a little more ornamental front with wide windows, with a statement showing additional cost, if any, to be submitted to the Council Chambers Erection Committee.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2548, 27 February 1923, Page 2
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387MUNICIPAL CHAMBERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2548, 27 February 1923, Page 2
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