SHORTLAND STREET POST OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 10

SHORTLAND STREET POST OFFICE.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l think that most people who give the subject any consideration will agree with the' view expressed in your leading article in Saturday's issue— that this post oflicc is a great public convenience, and that it should not bo closed. The Mayor and City Council deserve the thanks of the citizens for making an arrangement by which the congestion of trailic in Queen Street may be relieved by the provision of another street connecting Short land and Fort Streets, but that docs not necessarily involve the closing of the Short land Street Post Oflice. 1 submit that there is ample room for it. as well as for the new street. Only the public room need be on the street level, all the rest of the work of the post office being done upstairs. If the' footpaths of the new street were railed off. and the rule made compulsory that pedestrians must always use the "righthand path, the footpaths need not be so wide as they would require to be if the foot passengers passed to and fro on each path. Or alternatively, there is no reason why the Post Oftice' should not be built over the new street at a height of 30 or 40 feet and two or three more storeys added. Thus there would be more room for the business of the post and telegraph offices, and we should have two great public conveniences—the Shortland Street Post Office and tho new street connecting Shortland and Fort Streets.—T am, etc., OLD IDENTITY.