NEW PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 225, 16 September 1908, Page 2

NEW PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS.

Hlil'OltT OF THE COMMITTEE. By Telegraph.- -Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The repori of the He-building or Parliament Houses' Committee was presented this afternoon, la the opinion of the committee, the new Parliament Buildings should be erected 011 tn-j vemmvnt House site, and that tfce Jloleswortih street site, including t'io.-:i> portions of the old Parliament Iwildiugs not destroyed liy tire, siio i'd bo utilised for departmental buildings and ollices, and the old Parliaineiii'.ry lawn tennis ground as a site for a nntsui'i building, the Lainbton Quay block to be eventually leafed to tile public in building allotments. The Vi iiie.itl'.'e point out that arrangements thii pro]ioseil will entail the necessity 0; providing a new site for Uu• miunt House, tile selection of wliic'a doe 3 i'ot come within the committee's order of reference, Tile report was sig led by Mir W, .1. Steward. ' , .Mr. Massvy said members sln.iiii have time to consider the v.") i v t and evidence. Sir Joseph Ward said tllere was no need to rush matters. He moved that the discussion bu taken nexc Jay. This was agreed to.