"the Government are building . . . a wooden shanty called the metropolitan railway station but more like a cross between a bungalow and a cowshed." Division in the Camp.The Evening Post, page 2, 18 October 1880.
It was later claimed by The Evening Post to have been well-known that the Minister for Public works added an express Ministerial note to the plans that the building was to be "of wood and as cheap and plain as possible". A Thing of Sheds and Patches Evening Post, page 2, 24 December 1880. It was not demolished until 1937
