NEW CHIEF POST OFFICE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23319, 3 May 1941, Page 8

NEW CHIEF POST OFFICE

HEREFORD STREET BUILDING FINISHING WORK BY CONTRACTORS No date has been fixed yet for the opening of the new Chief Post Office in Hereford street. The ne w building was inspected yesterday by the Post-master-General (the Hon. P. C. Webb) and by Mr W. Holmes, the English trades union leader, who were impressed with the amenities, as contrasted with conditions for the staff in the old buildings in the Square. The money order and savings bank department is to occupy thte ground floor of the new and imposing office. In,,which the contractors are working on finishing and the erection of office Partitions. Among the first to occupy the building will be the Army Department, which has taken the whole of the first floor, which was set aside, in the original plans, as a mail room. Arrangements are being completed for, ihe transfer of sections of the staff from the old building as finished quarters become available in the new Office. The first section of the post office staff Will be transferred to the new building by Monday. This section, Mr V. C. Lawn (chief postmaster) said yesterday, would be the postmen’s branch, employing aboutlOO men, and it would occupy the greater part of the second floor. The new, quarters for this branch, which handled* Jill correspondence for deliyeiy. to residents Served by postmen,, would, be spacious, and ample provision would be; made for the convenience of business callers