GOVERNMENT’S TERMS
SALE OF SHORTLAND STREET BLOCK TO COUNCIL PORTION FOR POST OFFICE I The Government’s terms for the selling of the Shortland Street Post Office block to the Auckland City Council weje announced this morning. Cabinet decided that a piece of ground 57ft Sin A\ r ide on the Shortland Street frontage, Avith a depth of 50ft, is to be reained for post office! purposes and the price to be charged for the remainder of the property is £ 69,100. In addition to this, however, the council wi. 1 be required to make over to the Auckland Law Society the piece of land at the back of the present Supreme Court, for the sum of £2,000, it being understood that the society will make over to the Justice Department. the block in question, on condition that the Justice Department spends a further £2,000 on the new | Supreme Court library, and keeps the balance of land as an open space. The proposals are to be considered j as tentative in the meantime, it being held that legislation will be required to give <• 11 'i*«• t to them-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1006, 24 June 1930, Page 10
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