POST OFFICE ENTERPRISE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7373, 27 February 1911, Page 4

POST OFFICE ENTERPRISE

NEW BRANCH IN TH.ORNDON. i MOTOR LORRIES FOR MAILS. A property at .the corner, of Park street and Tinakori road, near tho Thorndon Bowling Club's green, has been purchased by the Government to be converted into a branch post office. A Morse instrument is to be installed, so that telegrams may be received and j despatched direct instead of having to rely upon messenger delivery from the General Post Oflice. Money-order, and savings bank business will also be t:ansacted. This extension of the department's activities is in accordance with its policy of encouraging the growth of business, particularly savings bank business, by taking its facilities as near to the homes of the people as possible. Let* ter-boxes on the street corners are now so numerous that the use of the post for conveying messages even within the same district has grown to proportions very profitable to the . department, and thoroughly justifying the installation. Alterations are to be carried out at Molesworth street Post Office,, which is at present- very small and ill-arranged, ■ though it is probably the busiest suburban office in Wellington. AVhatever is done will only be of a temporary nature, as a new- building will have to be provided in the near future. I A two-ton motor lorry was landed for I the Post Oflice Department from the steamer Surrey on Saturday. It is of 1 16-horse power, and capable of a speed of fifteen miles an hour. It carries 10 cwt more than the lorfy of similar pattern j imported a year ago, and used without; intermission ever since, with, thorough-! ly satisfactory results. The new lorry is; to convey mails between the General J Post Office and the wharves and trains.'