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“I have to advise you that owing to a number of urgent services claiming
prior attention, and carried over from previous years, it has not been found

possible to make provision for a new police station at Kalk Bay on the Loan
Estimates. It is unlikely the building will be erected in the next three to four

years”.

This continued through 1946 to 1948. The Department of Lands wrote to the

Town Clerk that the building would not take place until some years to come, but
would give the Cape Town City Council the land needed for road widening,

provided Council bore the costs - now £320. The area needed was approximately
2,000 sq. ft. The whole area required for road widening was re-surveyed in 1949.

Finally, in August 1949, the Administrator authorized the Cape Town City

Council to accept the Grant by the Department of Lands for 2,260 Cape sq. ft. for
the footpath in the road widening project. The Council would bear the cost of

£320 for the alterations to the police station as well as the survey costs and the

registration fees. This was approved by the Minister of Lands.

This approval was followed by a letter from the Secretary of Public Works to the
Provincial Representative of Lands in Cape Town that “all alteration work to

police station for new building and for road widening was to be undertaken by
the Government under one contract and the Council’s share of the cost (£320)

recovered from it”.

Closure of the Police Station

No sooner had the instructions been issued than a further instruction followed:

“The Department of Police has now decided to close the Kalk Bay Police

Station as from 30 November 1950 and the alterations to the station will

not be required. Transfer of the land required by City Council will be
completed by end of October 1950”.