THE POST OFFICE

Southland Times, Issue 20831, 20 July 1929, Page 7

THE POST OFFICE

EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS.

FACILITATING WORK OF OFFICIALS.

Extensive alterations, which will make a great increase in convenience to both the officials and the public, are shortly to be commenced at the Post Office. That is the reason why the Parcels Office has been transferred to its present rooms in Don street.

In the first place, the exchange room is to be enlarged by extension into the room in the northern wing, at present occupied by the telegraph operators, who will be shifted to more commodious quarters in the southwest corner. The postmen will be transferred from their present position in the mailroom to the rest of the room now occupied by the operators. The postmaster’s room and the passage running between it and the present parcels counter will all be converted into the parcels office, and a counter will be erected directly opposite the main entrance of the building. A drive will be made straight through from Esk street to the back of this room so that parcels bags can be unloaded direct into the parcels office. The accountant will be shifted to the western end of the money order office, and the Telegraph Engineer’s offices will be the rooms at present occupied by the clerical staff, which will be transferred to his rooms. In the stamp-counter room, the large tele phone boxes will be replaced by smaller ones, and an enclosed passage at prasent connecting the parcels office with the mail room will be thrown open to the main room, The Chief Postmaster himself will move to a room directly above his present one, and the next room will be occupied by the typists. _