LIVE DEPARTMENT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2119, 9 April 1914, Page 8

LIVE DEPARTMENT

ODE EXPANDING P. & T. BUSINESS 4Sy Tclegfaph,—Press Association.) Christctiifrch, April 8. Tlio JVwtmasteivGciioral ({ion. E. Heoioii Rhodes) laid tho foHndatioastone of the now Post Office- at Akafoii to-day, in tho presoifco of a largo gathering. In tho 'course «f his speech tho .Minister said that tho Ward Gov* enmiont had put a veto on tho estimates for tlio building, tot tho matter got no further till tho present Govern, meat took office, although tho necessity far a new- building was very pressing. Jtcferrmg to tho ftrsfc and Tok&fapn Department, the Minister- said that it ■was olio of the Most, if uofc tho most progressive.. Donartluenta in tho Domiwon, and, under, tho present Government, 'wns continuing its career of progress. 'Ho instanced tlio extension of t-lto telephone system, tho reduction in parcel rates, in wireless, and m oaWo rates, and tlio. increase an the rate of interest .011 tlio Tost Office Savings Bank deposits as evidence of theWprogress of tho Department under tho present Government, Afterwards tho Minister opened Dnlv's Wharf, which had ncofitly hem rebuilt at. n cost of £800,. -and which will lio of valuo from ft tourist and tea;' point of view, Mr. Shows lctt tor Wellington to-night. ___ L ___ KolUkv-WftkM's wi'l be jnleMsUd in Iha Faster tramway arraujjMWents, which appear elsewhere in tins issue. Four hotels, including tho celebrated "VetWcr House," have- been burnt at St. Augustine, Florida. The women escaped ia their night attire,