NEW POLICE STATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3794, 3 April 1913, Page 5

NEW POLICE STATION.

lAIPOSING BARRACKS. PROVISION FOR SINGLE CONSTABLES. Within about three weeks’ time the members of the Gisborne Police Force will be ensconsed in the new barracks at the corner of Childers Read and Peel Street, alongside the present station. The building is certainly more m keeping with the growing importance of the town than the present office, and the Force will he a great deal more comfortably accommodated. The building is of brick, and is finished in plaster, inside and out, while all the ceilings are in figured steel. On the right hand side on entering the downstair passage is the chief officer’s room, and opposite is the plain-clothes office, whilst a roomy watchhouse is built behind the latter, and a shrdlup room in which clothes might be hung, opening off the watch-house. Up-to-date sanitary conveniences are provided upstairs and down. A stair Icadsi to the upper floor from a side door in Peel Street, so that the constables living in the barracks might have a private entrance. A spacious bathroom is provided upstairs, anc] also other conveniences. There are three sleeping rooms for constables. and .■} large sitting Of smoking room is situated in the front left-hand corridor. The bedrooms are of reasonable size, and wardrobes are provided ill each. Air. H. Webb was the contractor, the cost- of the building being £2.300, Thft painting is being done by Forest, and Atkinson, the plastering by Mr. Jack-Kane, and the plumbing by Mr. Alf. Wade. At the rear is a new brick: two-cell lock-up, and the old ones, which have served their purpose for many years, will be renovated, and probably shifted.

As’to the present station, although nothing definite has been made, public. it is understood that it will be utilised as a. cottage for a married constable. It is further stated that the staff will be either augmented or reorganised, so as to enable three unmarried- constables to sleep on " the barracks. At pres'ent only one single constable is attached to the station. The provision of the new station doubtless satisfies a long-felt want, and the improvement is a further indication of the district’s growing prosperity.