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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 3367, 15 February 1879, Page 2

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> (From our own correspondent.) Feb 12. The usual meeting of the School Committee to elect a Chairman took place on fo waß~galin unanimously elected to that office. He informed ihe meeting that he had just received a communication frem Mr Buller, saying that he had just discovered the deeda of the section 7 which the Committee have for some time been in trraty for, as a si<e for the school, 60 that now we may expect that the build ing may.be commenced without mucu ! urth- r" delay. If the Edut avion Board could be louient with any thiug kss than the act .al de<ds before they begin ' operations there is -a good i-hauctf to get. the work done uiurh cneaper th«u usuh'l. fur, iirnt, the men are still here who built ibe new p st mci loleyrapii offices, and would i>e pi* i to t?ei iinothor j.ib in th«* placf ; ynd s coiid, there are at present <ereml waggons pKing between ti<e Uity of Aui'kiax ■■ and F'»xton, c»'nve}mg il»e m-vable« from.l!)t» v ( ssel to lhat port, an. i r.'turiiing empty, s-i'thry would gladly 'rug a )• ad of timber back «ith thftu- at h cheaper rate ihan usual If the B >ard study economy at all they should at least get ttie timber dowij \ by this chance, as it coat au iminen*a i sum to gel the timber tor the post office here from Wellington, and no doubt the deeds of the land would be in their hands before they required to accept any tenders for the building. The Post and Telegraph Office is at last completed, and time too, for it has been for mouths under way. But now that one can fee what it is intended to look like, it certainly does not strike one as a truruph. of architecture or a " thing of beauty." It is undouotly, an improvement on the old building, bnt that is about all that can be said of it. Jt i« iv no particular style that I can discover, but seems rather like a cross between a Swiss chalet and a country schoolhouse. it is evidemly an attempt to work the greatest quantity of timber aud other material into the least possible space, and|though we might have expected mure from the mass of architectural g>mius the Government have at their command, still we must be thankful, and I have no doubt our Postmaster and family will be more bo,