Thames Star THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935. THE NEW POST OFFICE.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19345, 28 February 1935, Page 2

Thames Star

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935. THE NEW POST OFFICE.

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At long last Thames is to have its new Chief Post Office in tho business centre of the town, and credit for the success of the prolonged agitation in favour of the erection of a more up-to-date building in keeping with the business needs of the community must go to the local Chamber of Commerce, which has never lost an opportunity of urging the matter in the right quarter. A sum of £SOOO has been provisionally placed on the Estimates of public expenditure for several years past for the work in view, but it should not be considered by any means adequate for the type of building Thames requires, and tho Chamber must still keep its eye on the proposed building when the plans are under review, particularly as there is a rumour current that tho district postal business is to be centralised elsewhere. We understand that when Mr. J. B. Donald was

Postmaster-General he had plans prepared for a new and up-to-dato building, but these plans were not divulged, and a change in the political situation saw the matter shelved. Now that the new Chief Post Office is about to be commenced we would suggest to the local business men that they endeavour to ensure the erection of a building with a larger frontage than the 66ft. Avhich the section secured by the Department some years ago in the central portion of Pollen Street allows. It is stated that additional property adjoining the site is available, and this would allow of an imposing structure, with a frontage wide enough to avoid traffic congestion in the heart of tho business area, and would meet all requirements for many years to come. There are other encouraging signs that Thames is about to move forward again with the times, and the transfer of the Chief Post Office from the Grahamstown end of tho town is but another indication of the many changes since the mining boom days, and of the tendency of the business area to become more and more centralised.