NEW POST OFFICE
WAIPIRO BAY CHANGE COURTHOUSE TO BE USED (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this_ day. The old courthouse in Waipiro Bay is to be converted for use as a post office for the township, according to information conveyed to Mr. A. Gordon Hultquist, M.P. for the Bay or Plenty, in response to an inquiry made recently. The inquiry from the member for the Bay of Plenty enclosed a petition from a number of residents in Waipiro Bay asking for the conversion of the old courthouse, now disused, so that improved facilities might be given for the transaction of post and. telegraph business.
In his reply to Mr. Hultquist, the Postmaster-General, the Hon. F. Jones, stated: “I have pleasure in informing you that arrangements are being made for the courthouse property to be transferred to my department, and for the building to be adapted for post office purposes.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 4
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147NEW POST OFFICE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 4
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