DUNEDIN POST OFFICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22401, 23 April 1936, Page 7

DUNEDIN POST OFFICE

PROGRESS OF THE WORK [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN" CORRESPONDENT! DUXEDIN, Wednesday Tlio new post oflioo m Dunedin will ho completed and ready for occupation in six months' time. The final arrangements tor the subdivision of the tipper lloors have not yet been made, but it is announced that besides the Post and Telegraph Department, the Lands and Deeds, Stamp Duties, Puhlic Works. Agriculture, and Public Health Departments will be housed in tlio new building. _ Mr. James Fletcher, managing director of the Fletcher'Construction Company, Limited, the contractors, stated that as far as the actual contract was concerned the work was up to schedule. The last shipment of stone was due at Dunedin at the end of next week, and the stonework, except for cleaning, would be completed at the end of May and the remainder of the work by the end of October. Mr. Fletcher added that the scaffolding would be removed a considerable time before the completion of the contract, and it would then be possible to gain an accurate idea of what the building would look like. Stripped of the scaffolding it would appear to b« much larger than at present, and the facing of the towers with stone and the erection of flagpoles above them would create an impression of greater height.