NEW POST OFFICE
OPENED AT PAEKAKARIKI,
\ new post office was opened at Paekakariki on Saturday afternoon by the Postmaster-General (Hon. J. G. Coates). The Minister was accompanied /by Mrs. Coates and the member for the distrct, Mr. W. 11. Field. The building, which was recently completed, is a combined post' office and postmistress's residence. It includes a telephone bureau, a telephone exchange, and a set of private The Minister congratulated the township on the improved accommodation, lie mentioned that the first post office was opened at Paekaknriki in 1569. in those days the mail coach from ellington inn through Paekakariki to Wanganui. Ihe iouracy was almost entirely .'.long the beachi In later years, of course, tho mails have been conveyed by tram. Air. Coates said that the growing importance of Paekakariki fully justified the erection of the new post office.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 151, 22 March 1920, Page 4
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140NEW POST OFFICE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 151, 22 March 1920, Page 4
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