The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. Motto: Public service. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1920. PUKEKOHE COURTHOUSE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 549, 16 July 1920, Page 2

The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. Motto: Public service. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1920. PUKEKOHE COURTHOUSE.

A most unsatisfactory state of affairs exists in connexion with the Pukekohe Courthouse. The Public Works Department undertook to build a new Courthouse: the old one was dismantled to be used for other purposes; the Court is at present held in the Masonic Hall building. These rooms are without a fireplace, and very cold and cheerless for Court ollicials and solicitors to sit in all day, besides being extremely inconvenient because the Court le cords and multitudinous documents and reference works are not. kept there: also, there is no phone, and often a police official has to rush up to the sergeant's residence to answer an urgent 'phone call. And it does not appear that the authorities are making any attempt to get the promised new Courthouse built. Doubtless the now more acute shortage of building materials will complicate matters still further. At anyrate, though the plans for the new structure have been in readiness for a long time, tenders have not yet been called for the erection of the new building. The position is causing endless inconvenience, discomfort and annoyance. We trust that the Pukekohe Borough Council and the Chamber of Commerce, which bodies were largely instrumental in getting a new Courthouse promised, will make urgent representations to the authorities with a view to ending a most unsatisfactory deadlock.