The following notes are written with the view of placing the past history of the subject before the Council in a concise form. I will deal with such references as I have been able to find in chronological order.
Reference: Report of Municipal Buildings Committee, February 1913, page The Municipal Buildings Committee recommended that the buildings be constructed in reinforced concrete.
I think the members of the Special Committee will agree that the word "constructed" was used advisedly with the idea of providing an up-to-date fire-resisting building as in contradistinction to one containing wooden floors, etc.
Reference: (1) Municipal Buildings Committee Report, page 10.
(2) ste Desien ILL attached to same Report, The estimate of Tls. 750,000 (1)
for Design III (2) was drawn up before any detailed plans had been prepared. The only j Ian in existence at that time was a block jlan drawn to a scale of 50 feet 1 published with the Municipal Buildings Committee Report.
It will, I think, be readily understood that. any estimate in such early stages would of necessity be very rough one. That this was so may be gathered from the original pencil notes of the calculations which are as follows North 1,210.00 cubic feot East 975, 100,000
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