Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-13 00:00:00

rection of such offices as would •be efficient for the
b usiness of the Corporation., and he thought any one seeing
the plans, would say the.; there was there room provided
---not only the businev, of the Corporation at presentbut
cars to tome. The buildings; if erected in
rely across the street, would enable the
Ad ready personal ,communication with
layer, whom it must not be forgotten was ex officio
a member of :Oa the committees, but from th&amount'of

fm many

Town C'

pul4k,

vas not able to attend on .t
onunittee, therefore, thought

this before removing. the whole for int& Dule-
riany of them thought would he highly.
10. purpose, and if the Mayor did not ,ga
the committee believed he would be
we fittll,- and would-Aftciwards necessi-

tate his removal to that place. This laid might be very
valuable, bat if the Council came -to'the''conclusiolf that
that was a fit place for the purpose, he 'did not' think
£lO,OOO .or £20,00 should stand in the way.. Ile thought
the business of the Council was of more importance than
„
such an amocuit, hnd uPott a rough estimate; the expemise
would be something like £20,000. Some gentlemen put
£30,000, but he &ought it -would not cost .moro
than £20,000. It Was u rough cetlinater and of coarse 34.
Newland woe?d not be bound to it. There: 'were,2,o 004ards
laid 'at a cost` of £3O a yard, vfaich would. be -160,009:
-was pat down .at £3O a yard, as something like a
ile was quite aware; of the *enormous
amount given for land on the other side ,of the exchange,
but he did thick the land on the opposite side would
fetch anfthing like the price. The Council would recol-
lect that the same amount of offico;:buildings would not
be reqvired, as 4 they were goinig. to Dale-street, beCause
many

MO,Xmaximum• • '•

,f the offices in tECTON;i'II Hall could ba mad(

avaiitble for tke business-of the town clerk, Which could
not be so if ht -went doist. to Dale-street. lf they Went
to Exchange-street We§t, a very considerable number of
those offices could be .wdrked in connection with the offices
o* the other side 'of the street. A • member •of the
corporation, who he'd considerable experience in the
value Oland, told hi'!a that the spare lard which they'
had, cost them something like £8 a-year. He put it at
£6. Thus 4,ooo'yaks at £6 being £20,0t0; being in all
190,000; Dale-streq, 79,000 ; being a difference of
£ll,OOO. , It ' might come to a ' few lthousand pounds
more may .E20,00c • but suppose it aid, 'he could not
think the business olthe Corporation :could be limited to
a few ihousarid.p.nds. He did not think this was the
sort 'of economy that the town of Liverpool wished to see
practised If everything was remeAred to the bottom 'of
Dalestreet, the :Mayor • Must ultimately go there, no
matter what 'gentlemen might think at present.. He
-therefore begged to move that the-question be referred to
-the' finance 'committee, with instructions to examine the
land in Exchange-street West, and to ascertain and
Teportlo the Pouneil.whether the ne'cessai.y offices can be
,tonstrneted'on that land, in connection with the Town
Bali., •
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r. lan 'Earle seconded The motion.
lir. Jeffery wished to know whether or not Mr. Turner
could move such an amendmenl4ithout having previously

given notice.
The Mayer said it arose out,of the proceeding on the

ry : Which proceedings have not been con-

by the committee