CORRESPONDENGE HAMILTON POST OFFICE SITE.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5535, 17 February 1914, Page 2

CORRESPONDENGE

HAMILTON POST OFFICE SITE.

To the Editor. Sir,—The comment by "Common Sense" in your issue of yesterday, in reference to the Post Office site, should lead other common-sense people to conclude that things in general require moving in Hamilton I would suggest that (for the benefit of those people interested in the railway and its vicinity) the whole of the southern portion of Hamilton, say, from the Town Hall to the C'lsey Corner, be removed and planted in various available allotments along the railway line. In certain cases no doubt arrangements could be made for the smaller retailers to erect stalls upon the open spaces between the rails.—! am, etc., PROGRESS.

To the Editor. Sir,—Under-the title of "Hamilton Post Office Site," the letter of your correspondent "Common Sense" in today's issue is really illuminating. The last paragraph contains his only point, and if it is a. sample of his ideas and reasoning in general, then the measure of sigificance attaching to the word "common" in its application to the quality of his sense, distinguishes him as an interesting curiosity. Here is his last paragraph. He "says; "Surely some of our citizens are not so petty mind'e'd as to want the P,ost Office to be enlarged in its present situation because their interests are situated at that end of the town." He ought to know that some of our citizens want the Post Office enlarged, not because it is located at their end of the town, but because they are'sufficiently observant and public-spirited to recognise that while the present Post Office is well situated, it is totally inadequate to meet the great growth of business which the officers housed therein are called upon to perform. The present location of the Post Office could not be improved upon, it is well within the commercial centre of West Hamilton, and at the same time just about midway between the Hamilton East and Frankton Post Offices,©while the Claudelands Post Office is within a stone-throw of the railway bridge. "Common Sense" need not worry his soul about a blunder, for if his suggestion were followed, a grave blunder would indeed be committed. The only deduction which can be drawn from his extraordinary logic is that as his interests do not lie at that end of tha town where the present Post Office is located, he is not petty minded because he wants it removed to where his interests lie, but every other person who may have an interest in that part of the town near the present Post Office, and because of their desire to see it enlarged in its present situation, they are the "petty minded." As "Common Sense" might think it unkind of anyone to say he was petty minded, 1 will simply excuse him.—l am, etc. HAMILTONIAN.