PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE TO BE IN OXFORD TERRACE

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28541, 21 March 1958, Page 10

PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE TO BE IN OXFORD TERRACE

Canterbury’s new public relations office will be at 138 Oxford terrace, between Cashel and Hereford streets and overlooking the Avon river. The ground-floor premises were formerly occupied by a tyre company.

The public relations officer (Mr E. G. Beckett) will take up his duties on April 1 and it is expected that the offices will be occupied a few weeks after that.

The Canterbury Progress League, under which the public relations officer will work, has taken the lease of the premises and will transfer its own offices there. The league will soon appoint a new secretary. The Town Hall Promotion Committee, which will be incorporated on Monday, has been negotiating with the Progress League for part-time secretarial services. It is therefore likely that all three activities will have headquarters in the same centre.

The new offices have 735 sq ft of floor , space. They are now being remodelled so that there will be a large public foyer with another public room Ing doors. With these doors open, a fairly large area could be made

available for meetings and small receptions. The staff offices will be an the north side. Remodelling will provide two large clear glass windows on the frontage—one giving a view into the reception area (where publicity displays may be mounted) and the other, in front of the offices, for window displays. More than 50 per cent, of the whole area has been set aside for public access to the information centre, literature, and displays.