KAITANGATA POST OFFICE

Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 4

KAITANGATA POST OFFICE

[Special to tub- Stag.] KAITANGATA. .Inly 31. The jHen. T. Mackenzie, Ac-ting Post-master-General, to-day laid the foundation stone of the new Post OfHee here. The site for the Post Office is at the corner of Eddystone and Exmouth sfreots, next to the ' Presbyterian Chu:cb. A great deal of excavation has ha-d to lie done, arxl the staff taken out ha.s been used to fill up ,the low-lying site cf tho old Post OlHee. thus considerably enhancing its value. Kaitangata's' new Post Office will bo a decided architectural adornment to "Coalopolis." In outside appearance it will very much resoluble the Wyndham Post Office. The building will have a frontage of 52ft and a depth ot 52ft, and the r.izc of the section it is to stand on is 82ft 6in by 85ft 9in. It is to ho a twostory brick structure, the lower story face of pointed brick and the upper story finished in rough-cast covered with ochre-. The lower floor comprises a nir.il rc-om 31ft by 14ft 9in, a counter 16ft long dividing it'from the public space, which is lift bv 9ft. The postmaster's room is lift 6:n by 10ft 6in. Fifty private letter boxes and a public telephone bureau, as well as a telephone for the staff, have been provided for. The residential part upstairs comprises a- dining room, sitting room, three bedrooms, kitchen, scullery, pantry, etc. The contractors are Messrs Watson Rhodes and Bon, and the contract price is £2.159 14s Id. Replying to the toast of " The Government" at luncheon, the Hon. T. Mackenzie said that they wore en. d savoring to do the test they could in the? interests of the whole of the people. YVi-on they went wrong Mr James Allen would tell them all about it. Then the members of the Government would «n on to the platform and sihow what iinc feathers they had, and the Opposition feathers would get, considerably bedraggled. The truth would bo found between the two—tho Government Avere not so bad as. they were painted by the Opposition, and were, perhaps, not fo good as their friends made them out to lie.