FIFTY YEARS AGO.
POST OFFICE BUILDINGS.
PROVISION' FOR CUSTOMHOUSE.
(From (he 'HERALD of May 12. 1865.) We understand that Urn building for t ie post office and customhouse is to lie commenced immediately on the sit*of the mcsent customhouse and old market in Shortland Street. It is intended, as the allotment has a frontage to both streets, that that portion front i F'irt Street si mil bo applied to the purposes of a customhouse, and that l.ieing Short land Street to these of the post otlire. The whole buildin.;, however, is tube so fitted up tint! whenever the growing requirements of t no ntv render it "too small for the earrv'ng on "of both purposes it can be applied to the use of the post office department solely.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15915, 12 May 1915, Page 12
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