DEVONPORT BOROUGH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22194, 22 August 1935, Page 12

DEVONPORT BOROUGH

STREET APPPALS POLICY BRANCH POST OFFICE WANTED The Devonport Borough Council, when considering last night the request of the organiser of tho Health Stamp Campaign for permission to take a street collection in connection with its annual appeal, expressed disapproval of the principle- of freely granting permits for such collections. It was decided to inform the organiser that the full quota ol Fridays set aside for street collections had already been allocated, but that instead of granting such a permit tho council would purchase Health Stamps to the value of £5. In contrast to tho many letters asking that a town hall should be provided in the now Devon port municipal buildings whs a letter from the Victoria Park and North Devon port Katepayers and Residents' Association saying it did not wish to be associated with the requests, and adding that the money to be expended in that wa.v could be more profitably spent on permanent improvements to footpaths, diains and roads

Tlio council decided to support tiio petition of the association to the Post and Telegraph Department for the provision of a suburban post office in the North Doyonport area. Such an office could be accommodated in one of the business promises near Lake Road.