NEW POST OFFICE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 299, 14 September 1937, Page 15

NEW POST OFFICE

Council and Department Exchange Land

Confirmation was received at last night's meeting of the Lower Hutt Borough Council of an arrangement reached between the Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. G. McNamara, and the council regarding the exchange of the land on which the present post office is situated, this site being owned by the department,, and the site of the new post office, which is to be erected on land owned by the council, opposite the council chambers and alongside the civic centre holding. The two pieces of land have been exchanged. The director-general’s letter confirmed the arrangement made between the mayor and him to the effect that the council should pay to his department half the variation of £llO in the valuations of the respective sections, making a payment of an additional £55, to the amount of £2530, and agreeing on behalf of the department to pay a rental of £5 a. week for its present building from the time it required possession of the new site. The council has arranged for a further lease of its existing premises for three years at £312 a year. RAILWAY EXTENSION FROM WATERLOO No Decision Forthcoming The question was becoming an acute one, said Or. S. J. Ashton at last night’s meeting of the Lower Hutt Borough Council, when he inquired if anything had been heard of the extension of the railway beyond Waterloo. The' mayor, Mr. J. W. Andrews, said ; that any extension was bound up with ! the plans of the State Housing Department and amalgamation.. Nothing had yet been heard of a decision. EXTENSION OF LIBRARY HOURS The Lower Hytt municipal library hours are to be extended and the library will open at 10.30 a.m. instead of at noon from Mondays to Fridays inclusive. . This will give subscribers and the public an extra seven and a half hours; service weekly. No increase in staff will be required. A system whereby a rental card may be procured for one shilling a year, and the holder may take out one book at a time at threepence a book, will also be introduced.