THE NEW G.P.O.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 4

THE NEW G.P.O.

VERY NFAft COMPLETION.

.As there is a good deal of work lo do it, connecting tho old with tho new General Post Ollice, and that work has to be j ono without inlcrfcrinjj with business in anyway, it ic quite possible that it will | )a June before the Department is established iu its now quarters. At mm lime it wag thought that thm'o would he room in (h 0 prc-enl General Post Office when (he now building was erected, but that idea has been gradually dispelled during the last two years, and now it !s pretty well kucwii that tlio demands of llio Opiioiml lost Ollico will be such thai: there will bo no room whatever for oth.n- Government Vicpnrtmonl.s in the big block between Customhouse- IJnity and Foatlierslon Street. The new building is to accommodate tho whole of the (el.'graph and tolephono mechanical branch, now located on tho two top floors if Nathan's Building tho Money Onl-r and SavhißK Bank 'now in Sir. ftobt. Hannah's building on Lambton Ouay), and the Dead Letter Office, in tho St. George Building. Panama- Street. Willi those branches •established in the new building where tho hood office, operating rooms, and parcels postoflico arc Also to bo accommodated, there will be little enough roon for expansion, and nlrcndy full uso can be made of tho old building by numerous other branches of this big nn.l rauidlv gnwing Department Ihn-seat-fobling has now been mken down from tlio front of Hi* building, and a Rood view of the lie-- slrnotiiio ca:i be obtained. 1!» exposure of tho completed elevation only seems to omphasise what 'i mistake ha* luen imi'lo in culling <mt the fourth story fiiviuinnllv nrovided bv the architect, Air. John Canmbell). It is a pity, as tho room will be wanted within a few year*. The main ontrn.ro, for n pretentious stone building, is uni "nosing, but tit** " n(! facade of T'mtru P,av stone, and the columns that vise from Uic first floor lines nro in nice relation to the general fchemo. Alfred Tlriirv's statuary, which is to surmount the main entrance, will add materially to the artistic ornamentation of the elevation.