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Building Plans For Brisbane
If all the building plans for city business houses which may have been “on the ice” for years past could be carried out in one night nobody would be able to recognise Brisbane the next day, write our Brisbane correspondent.
But one rather suspects that quite a lot of these alleged plans were as much smoke as anything else. It is just as well that credit restrictions are still in force to some extent, otherwise Queen-street would soon be a mass of scaffolding, according to all the talk, and pedestrians would have to use the roadway instead of the footpaths.
There are a great number of old buildings in our main street which urgently need extensive alteration to make them at all modern. lots of them will have to be demolished, as nothing could be done with them. They are merely old brick shells,