STRATFORD'S POST OFFICE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 65, 12 March 1912, Page 6

STRATFORD'S POST OFFICE

A DISGRACE TO THE TOWN

• Our Post Office was referred to last night in very uncomplimentary terras by councillors, Councillor Ward being tbu instigator of the discussion. Hi moved that the attention of the' Post-master-General bo called to tno ncer. of a more up-to-date Post Office foi Stratford. ;

Councillor Paget: Hear, bear. Councillor Boon said tlie present building’.was a disgrace to the town. The Government were continual!/ spending a. few hundred pounds here and there, and the place was rotten now.. If they got to work, and onlisted tiie aid of the Chamber of Commerce, they might got what they wanted. The Deputy-Mayor said the whole place was ent of date, and it certainly was a disgrace to the town. Councillor Ward was to he. commended in •bringing the* matter forward. * 4 There s money on the estimates,” he added, ‘'for a Public Works Office, and that ought to have been expended.”

• Councillor Paget: That’s gone to New Plymouth.

Councillor King: If our member had been alive, we would have got that. Councillor Paget: It isn’t the improgressiveness of the member, it’s the unprogrcssivenoss of the town. v Councillor King; If you had put me in, I would have got it. (Laughter.) The motion was carried.