The Commonwealth Government this week accepted a tender for £410.000 for a ten-storey building to be built beside the present General Post Office, which fronts Pitt Street. Martin Place and George Street. When the most modern mail-handling plant and other equipment is installed the total cost will be close on £1,000,000, and so fast is the post office's business growing that even this new ten-storey building, it is anticipated, will suffice' for only a comparatively few years. A tunnel under Pitt Street will connect the new post office building with the Commonwealth Bank for the safe transfer of the huge sums of money daily handled by the G.P.O.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 120, 24 May 1939, Page 5
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