THE WELLINGTON POST OFFICE.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 39, 17 February 1881, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON POST OFFICE.

Some little time ago we directed pointed attention to the disgraceful condition of the miserable collection of sheds and shanties which is made to do duty for a Chief Post Office in this city. Nothing has been done to improve it, the only proposal being to stick on another small wooden shed, which the City Council very properly refused to sanction. It is indeed scandalous that the capital of New Zealand should be left with such a disreputable apology for a post office. Little trumpery towns and villages in other parts of the colony have comparatively palatial edifices, yet the colonial metropolis is denied anything beyond a rotten old matchbox, which is fit for nothing but to be chopped up for firewood. It is so highly inflammable as to be a source of constant peril not only to the valuable letters and other documents which the public are compelled to leave temporarily within its decayed walls, but also to the whole block in whioh it stands. It leaks like a sieve when the slightest shower falls. There are no proper conveniences for the officers or receptacles for letters. Old packing cases of rough deal are made to do duty for the proper presses and safes, with which every post office ought to be provided. There is not the ghost of a protection against either fire or robbers, and indeed none is practicable in that vile old tumbledown ramshackle .abomination. And all this timothe Government are in possession of an excellent design, inexpensive when compared with the sums lavished on the Government buildings in les3 important towns, and in every way admittedly suitable for the purpose. Surely it is high time the people of Wellington awoke to the shamefully insecure and unseemly condition of their most important local pnblic office, and brought constant pressure to bear on the Government until the present structure be replaced by something more decent and reputable.