KAITAIA POST OFFICE

Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1946, Page 2

KAITAIA POST OFFICE

A MODEL EDIFICE Friends of Mr. Jim Wilcox, late postmaster at Otaki and; now pf Kaitaia, will be pleased -tc learn that his oifice has gone up still another grade, thus proving • the amount of work Mi'. Wilcox has to deal with. His regret was expressed in a letter to a friend in Otaki, at the deaths of Mr. M. Coventry and Mr. Len Kilmister, who he regarded as two of his best friends. Of his staff of recent date no less than eight girls have married, with more to follow, but men from overseas have been available for the positions rendered vacanfc. He praises the ladies who had helped during the war period, considering l.heir work was of an outstanding nature. Mr. Wilcox also speaks highly of his lady assistants when at Otaki. Miss Olga Wilcox is nowa nurse, and doing well. Mr. Wilcox states that Kaitaia is growing rapidly, and is now a very ! important district, with new businesses frequently opening. Receni-. jiy a full-sized billiard table at a ! cost of £100 and a ping-pong table had been installed in the recreafcion room at the pos,t office, and. j much amusement ' had been | derived. State houses, he says, are going | up in various directions. Another ,3ix have just been finished and :wenty-six more authorised. It is considered that another 80 houses are needed to satisfy demands. Mr. Wilcox states that he had tfae pieasure of attending a school re-. union at Pukekohe, when a remark' was made that there was an cxpupil as far away as from Kaitaia. Mr. Wilcox, in the final passage of his letter, states that he expects to visit Otaki in November to renew acquaintances with oid friends.