3.1 The Public Buildings

Law Courts and Police

Post-war complaints had also been made about the poor facilities in the Frankston Court House and Police Station. However repeated requests to the Crown Law Department for new buildings were turned down because of the shortage of building materials.1 Eventually, in the 1950s, the new court house opened, altering the character of another section of the government reserve.2 Similar demands were made to get a new police station for Frankston; the old station being dubbed "the blue hole of Frankston."3 Police facilities improved marginally when they moved into two rooms of the building occupied by the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission nearby.