THE NEW POST OFFICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14708, 16 June 1911, Page 6

THE NEW POST OFFICE.

ENTRANCES TO STATION.

SHOUL D THERE BE ARCHWAYS ?

[BT TELEORAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Thursday. A DIFFERENCE of opinion has arisen between the Public Works Department and the Railway Department regarding the entrances to tho Auckland railway station, which run along either side of the newpost office. The proposal of the Public Works Department is to have an archway at cither side of the post office at the entrances to the station. The entrances are each 32ft wide, and the archways will roduco the width of each to 20ft. Tho railway people think it would bo better to sacrifice the arches for the full width for the Bake of traffic. Against that the Public Works Department states thot the traffic will be directed in through one entrance and out of the other, and that there will nob bo ingress and egress at the same entrance. The 20ft entrances should therefore be sufficient. Besides this it is pointed out that the archways which it is proposed to erect will be extremely handsome, the finest of any archways in New Zealond. They will also be of stone, and will bo a natural adornment of the post office. If they are deleted from the plans the sides of the post office and the abutting exterior of tho adjoining buildings will bo bare and ugly.