A BIG STRUCTURE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 6

A BIG STRUCTURE

DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES IN DUNEDIN For over twelve years the business of the Chief Post Office, Dunedni, has been conducted in the old Drill Hall in Dowling Street, near the office of the “Otago Daily Tinies,” the old Post Office which occupied a comniandng position in the centre of the city, facing Princes Street, having been occupied by several of the Government Departments. The Drill Hall has been a very good makeshift indeed, but even at its best it was only that whilst the old Post Office building was too small to accommodate nearly all the Departments, as a consequence of which other premises had to be rented in different parts of the city. A change is about to be made. On the site of the old Post Office, which was sold for demolition for the sum of £375, the Government has decided to erect a very large departmental building that will be a credit to the southern city. The new structure will be of six stories on the Princes Street frontage and seven on the Bond Street side, the contour of the section lending itself to that variation. This is a magnificent block of central Dunedin land, and when completed the new building will be a larger block than the G.P.O. in Wellington, and one that will not only house the Chief Post Office, but all the rest of the Government Departments in that city. A three-story addition is to be made to the Post Office at Napier ,and later on in the year plans will be prepared for the new Wellington East Post Office in Cambridge Terrace, which is to supersede the overcrowded Courtenay Place office.