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APPENDIX XI.NEW POST OFFICE STORES DEPOT AT ST JOHN’S ROAD.The removal of the Stores Depot from Aldborough House to St. John’s Road was for the purpose of enabling the yard at Aldborough House to be made available to the Dublin Corporation for the erection of working class dwellings in that congested area, and one of the conditions of the transfer to the Corporation was that that body would repay to the Post Office the cost of providing the new accommodation at St. John’s Road, that cost being estimated at £9,550 and accepted by the Corporation. That estimated cost was arrived at on the basis of providing at St. John’s Road accommodation as good as that which was being given up at Aldborough House, and in it was included heating arrangements of the same character as those which were in use at Aldborough House, i.e., heating stoves. It was thought at the time that heating stoves would prove adequate, but in fact they did not, and it was necessary to provide a central heating system with boiler-house, etc., at a cost of £1,204 5s. 0d., less £74, the cost of the heating stoves recovered. It is not thought that the assumption at the time the transaction was being negotiated, that heating stoves would suffice, was an unwarranted one. But when the scheme was in process of being carried out, advantage was taken of it materially to improve the accommodation at St. John’s Road. Additional storage accommodation, for instance, of 6,500 square feet, over and above what was contemplated when the agreement with the Corporation was made, was provided, a new cycle shed was provided, the Staff Dining Room was enlarged and renovated. Of the total expenditure, excluding the heating system, only £8,497 12s. 11d. was properly attributable to the original scheme of providing at St. John’s Road accommodation as good as that which was being relinquished at Aldborough House, and there was therefore a balance of £1,052 7s. 1d. of the money paid by the Corporation, which would reduce the excess on that scheme, including the central heating system, to £78. The new accommodation at St. John’s Road is very much better than that which was given up at Aldborough House, and the Post Office view is that the State has been a material gainer on the transaction. (Signed) P. S. O’HEGARTY, Accounting Officer. Department of Posts and Telegraphs, 14th June, 1941. |
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