Spings Junction Post Office
Sir,—The new Mount Cook post office, which is nearing completion, has certainly been designed to blend with the local scene. Is it too much to hope that the long-awaited post office to be built at Springs Junction will be as aesthetically satisfying? The possibility of a corrugatediron roofed shack, with one doorway and one window, being erected in this scenic area is one the writer is deeply anxious should be avoided at all reasonable costs.—Yours, etc., D. J. LATHAM, i Reefton, October 15,1969. (Mr G. Searle, DirectorGeneral of the Post Office, replies: “The Springs Junction Post Office will handle very much less business than the Mount Cook Post Office and will therefore be smaller. The building will be a new one of timber-framed construction ; sheathed in weatherboard with panels to provide appropriate colour relief. The aim will be to achieve a result that will not be out of keeping with the area in which it is to be erected.”]
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32127, 24 October 1969, Page 10
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