POSTAL PROGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 174, 16 April 1908, Page 6

POSTAL PROGRESS.

, ' S lit NEW POST OFFICE FOR WELLINGTON ; CENTRAL. It is. only somo three or four years since tlie' postal - business of Wellington: Central ; (the teVm Te Aro is confusing to newcomers) • ■ was, removed from Baillie's bookshop to "a biiilding of its own in Ghuznee (street- (near its.'intersection -with Cuba,; Street).-. ilia ,charigo meant a. wonderful-,increase in'tha business, aiid* provided facilities lor box de- ■ liveries of mails arid .other conveniences that . could hot .b'«, granted previously, ihc twostory building at present doing 'duty ~as .To; Aro, Post Office, was, leased: at a high ~ rental, andj.it has proved an immense convenience, 'to./-the;'.'.'business people' of Cuba Street and that; yicinity, , but now the business has, outgrown the building, and t-ha Government liasdecided,.011. the erection of another Post Office to serve the - district, known olectorally as Wellington Central. For this purpose the ; Government lias purchased a valuable corner site having'a frontag3 of 03ft. to,Ghuznee-Street' and one to Leeds Street of. 102 ft., which, site lis right opposite'the,'northern end of Marion Street, and,is, within 100, yards,of-the-site of. the-; present post oflico, oil the other-side of tho . Cuba' Street, intersection.;v : Sketch plans for the new Post; Office have been prepared by, Mr. J. Charl&worth, whe has provided'.-ft',handsome , elaborate elevation to , a most -conveniently. ; ' designed interior.': The building, wliidli cccupics°the whole of ; ,the . block (with tlic.'exccp- ; tio'n of a- passage,ori the eastern ■ side), may be adapted for the purposes .of a two or three-storied building./ It for, Cabinet to decido which is advisable', two stories being all that' is '.at present necessary.- for the purposes of. tho .office. The plan, whichis now in the hands of the Public Works Department, lias yet to •bp approved. ' ;, ■ ■