CITY OFFICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 11

CITY OFFICES

CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS

REFUSE COLLECTION DELAYS

The City Corporation offices will be closed from this afternoon generally until January 4, but there are certain exceptions. The libraries, for instance, will be closed only on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday of the Christmas and New Year weeks. The Rates Office, City Engineers' Office, and Traffic Office will be open for the receipt of money or the issue of urgent permits and licences between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Thursday- next. Electricity House will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, but Bowen House, where many people pay their electricity accounts, will be closed until January 3. .

The baths and the golf links will be closed on Christmas Day. Possibly that is all wrong, but the custodians have homes as well on Christmas Day.

Matters of real urgency may be reported by telephone: Engineering, water,1 drainage, etc., 51-729;, traffic, 46-507.

Refuse collection is always a problem during the Christmas holidays, for the normal date of collection is set back. It is not possible to ptit on extra wagons and teams, for these men have to know their rounds thoroughly to get through without a string of complaints about missed bins, placed in all sorts of positions. The rearranged dates were 7 advertised in last evening's "Post" and will be again announced in Tuesday's issue. The delay will be of one day in most cases, but on some rounds there will1 be'a delay of two days, but nothing too serious for householders, to meet by a little Christmas co-operation.