CENTRAL POST OFFICE SITE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 4

CENTRAL POST OFFICE SITE

The List. Readers are again reminded to forward the names of volunteers not included in the list recently published. Since the last request was made a further twenty-seven names have been handed in and this alone shows that there are numbers of men who passed medical examina-. tions in other centres and whose names have not been recorded in Whakatane.

In response to the recent letter signed .by a local businessman, the BEACON has been asked if any further steps have been taken to further the suggestion that the new Post Office should be erected at the corner of Commerce Street and the Strand. The position is that the matter has been merely ventilated through these columns, and has therefore come before the Department's notice in an unofficial manner. The question of site is therefore a matter to be decided either by the Department or the Department's recognition of the wish of the general public. The mention of the Chamber of Commerce by our correspondent, introduces a matter which K has been handled by this paper for the past sixteen months but without results. That very necessary body still lies in peaceful slumber, oblivious to the growth of the town or its pressing needs in whidh businessmen should take an active part in endeavouring to realise.

Pipe Band's Visit. 1 lie Whakatane Caledonian Society's Pipe Band will visit Opotiki to-morrow, to lend assistance in rais , ing patriotic funds. It is understood that the band will head a procession of football and basketball teams to the reserve and Avill contribute selections during the afternoon. Ring No. 10 for that next Printing order. Beacon, Box 7.