The procedure for the rebuilding programme has been arranged 50 hat there shall be no interruption of municipal of, poles fonetinning.
jerefore, the frst place to be rebuilt is Poste Mallet.
By demolishing the quarters of the Annamite and Chinese members jof the police immediately to the north of the municipal building, the space for the new Poste Mallet has been provided. This will be erected immediately behind the municipal building, only a few feet Jat Oxford and Cambridge on "The 'Economic Causes of the American 'Dell War," and as the result of those lectures engaged exhaustive study of "Cotton as a World Power." This he has taken as the' subject for his next book. from it, Temporary quarters for these members of the force. have been found in Rue clu Weikwei. been completed, the old station will therefore be over 70 be evacuated and its occupants will ko up their quarters in the new cightstorey © haliding. Then the erected in 1911, will be it ing of the old station will eave room for" Rue "clu Welkwet to give freely upon Avenue Edward Vi, channel for New Municipal Building Next year work will menced dri the new municipal build: inge, in. the area' surrounded "by Avenue Joffe, Route Lorton (exten. lon), Route "Pal Henry" and Dlsteds the old municipal buildings pleted, the eld. municipal build willie ton down. of_the present es, with the police ation in the middle background, rj] will be made into a small Zquare. "The new buildings of the bile
Wei Bank, practically completed, have an arcade in the pres-fent Rue clu Consular manner, but which extends along the west side, and which will therefore face the square.
"When the land occupied by municipal tax office is sold, any new building which is constructed thereon will have to. match the Chung Wel Bank building in style, and the square will therefore appear symmetrical.
The statue of Admiral Protet, commemorating the deaths of Sfench troops in the period 1855-0, tick nowy stand in front of the municipal building, wil probably be left to form a centre piece for the square.
Seventy Years Old municipal building which presents such an amazing appear tance at the present time is nearly 70. years old. Its building was commenced in July 1863, to the designs of a British architect, Mr.
V. Knewitt.
'On August 10, 1864, the first members of the council' staff moved
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