Post Office profit

Press, 23 September 1983, Page 16

Post Office profit

Sir,—l was interested to see that, among the uses to which the Post Office’s profit is to be put, is the building of new post offices. I would like to ask the Chief Postmaster in Christchurch if he has already made representations to the Postmaster-General to have either a new or a rebuilt post office provided in North New Brighton, where there are at present no postal facilities whatever and where local residents have been seriously inconvenienced for many months. There is no time to waste. I understand that the decision to close our post office was made in Wellington and the reason given was that it would cost too much to put the existing building in a suitable state of repair. Now that there is apparently a huge sum of money available, this excuse no longer holds good and I hope that pressure will be exerted now to have a very badly needed post office replaced, before it is decided, also in Wellington, that all the new post offices are to be built in the North Island.—Yours, etc., ANNE THOMSON. September ,16, 1983.

[The Chief Postmaster, Mr N. J. Williams, replies: “I have not made representations to the PostmasterGeneral for a Post Office to be provided in the North New Brighton area. It is not correct to say there are no postal facilities in the area. There are street posting boxes, telephone boxes and a Post Office within Ikm of most residences.”]