RANGATAUA NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12202, 21 April 1909, Page 3

RANGATAUA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Messrs E. H. Snow and Son have just about completed their contract for clearing the Post Office site in Nei Street. It is the intention of the Postal Department to at once erect accommodation for the postmaster on the site, and as soon as the new building is completed at Ohakune the old building will be shifted from there to here. Although not a very imposing edifice, it will be quite sufficient for all our requirements for many dayseto come. The shifting of the building cannot take place until well on in June, and in the meantime we must put up with the many inconveniences of the present office. One fault in particular exists at present and this is that there is absolutely no privacy in the forwarding and receiving of telegraph messages. There is only one room, and the telephone,,• through_which all messages are transmitted, is situated above five feet from the public door. With the door open, anyone standing within ten feet of the building can hear all that is going on. This is very objectionable.

Many new buildings are in course of erection. In the front street Mr Wilson is erecting a billiard room and hair-dressing saloon, and Mr Organ a stationery shop. In the side streets we have a bakery, where in a week or so Mr Aikman Avill be at work supplying bread. Messrs Sutherland, Harper, Aikman, and Fryer have all got their dwellings well under way, and should bo in them before winter sets in. The clearing of Marino and Piwari Streets is nearing completion. The next one to be undertaken is, I believe, Miharo Street, which rims right through the town, and should in time,be the business street. The next item on the programme will lx> to get the streets formed and metalled, with footpaths in the more important parts, but I am afraid it

won't be this winter that will see this done.

Some of those interested in Church matters are endeavouring to raise enough money, by subscription, for the purchase of an organ, but so far with very little success. I understand, also, that an endeavour is to be made to get a church building erected, and I wish those that have it in hand success. Ways and means should be found without much difficulty, that is if all the Church people will pull together, and one denomination help the other. Tho price of timber is now down to bedrock, and to those "who intend building now is the opportunity. ■ Judging by the remarks of the Minister for Railways the prospects of the proposed railway to Raetilii being built within the next year or two are very ; remote. That the line would pay there iis no doubt.