THE "MORNING POST"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 3

THE "MORNING POST"

A STRAND LANDMARK BUILDING CHANGES HANDS (From Our Own Correspondent.) It hiß ho L(£' D?, N '- 2SUI December.' William ]) r^". oihc} al|y mtimated.that Mr. i, \l P, -,» : \f" iu f s ilctl»»'ed the "Mornl pfeWS,*lllß ior huusins his vario"9 T^ hrn lalTiso." reee"uJ' Purchased Sip John Herman's group of illustrated week! ? T '"' „tra!le Pei-iodieals, including the lonlo'nX^"" 8^1^!;''; Ule "IHuftratrf The now offices of the '■Morning Post" Bo,' I-h f b".ldl"R. with an office iv -it will be revealing no secret now to mention that this line modern building occupying „ „„;,,„„ . uu , eomu d ; >• land site ,„ The Strand, was offered to fm. v eV lS, il v, elT Slllt«"le headquarters for New Zealand m London. The New Zealand rime Minister spent some time ST? Ulorollf h'i' over the premises and in giving careful consideration to the matter, but in the result it was decided not to so iurther into the matter. The main obstacle perhaps was that the New Zealand Coveniment already owns a new home in The Strand—a home of which- full possession will not be possible for more tlian three years to come, because various leases have still to run. The "Morning Post" building would have been available at once. Each building, it was realised, would need a certain '.mount ?' "!,'"„. ■V te™tlo» t0 make it suitable for the High Commissioner's Office, but (he Morning Post," it was estimated, would entai a considerably heavier outlay in this connection than the building already owned. There are many New Zealandcrs wlio will regret the decision to which the Prime Minister, m the circumstances, felt bound to come, because the "Morning Post" building is one of London's landmarks, and it is a splendid structure. There are few Strand sites to equal it. Certainly none to surpass it. There established New Zealand ,yoii],l have nossowccl a very fine permanont home m Londo.,. One side o£ this building runs for some distanre-alone London's newest thorou-hfjire-Tlie Aid. w.vHi -tho other side .in l>ury Lane. 1 crhaw if both buildings had come"into the market at the s-. me time the choice might have been different, but --hen it was decided to close with the British Medical Association for its biiildmp tliero were no iiidioalions that tho ' well-known, lipinc of the ••Morning Post" would be vacated for offices iv^rer the recognised newsnaner contre of Fleet street and it* ll(>livhl>n.lvhood. S~>, Fleet street.

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