I'm not sure when this building was completed, but p.15 of the PWD's annual report for 1954-55 says:
2.64 Piling was nearing completion and a building contract had been signed for the Western Magistracy, designed by a private architect.
That suggests it was finished in the mid- to late-1950s.
The building is no longer used as a magistrate's court. <Read more ...>
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