SUBURBAN LEDGER OFFICE

Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 1

SUBURBAN LEDGER OFFICE

NEW POST AND TELEGRAPH FACILITIES AT GARDENS With the opening this morning of a Post, Telegraph, ami Savings Bank at the Gardens a new departure was .signalised. Uttering all the Facilities of a chief oflice, it will bo of great advantage to the people of the north end of the eiiy. obviating the necessity to travel to the Chief Post Office to lodge their savings, or to the Telegraph Office to despatch messages. Hie savings bank department is an institution independent of the. main office, its deposit books bearing the inscription " Gardens Savings Bank.” Another innovation is the provision for the strictest privacy in the transaction of business. The usual type of counter has no partitions between the .subdivisions, anti oilers little or no opposition to tic mo-motive glances of others, but in this office there are partitions of such size as to guard against this eventuality very effectively. The single counter is divided into three by this means, the sections being devoted to postal, telegraphic, and savings bank business respectively. Other facilities include a soundproof telephone box, a .stamp slot machine, and the interior in its entirety is tastefully furnished, hearing a most striking losembla'iee to a private office rather than a governmental department. .Dependent upon the success and patronage of tins office, similar ledger offices, as those are called, may he installed for the convenience of the suburban population in other districts, and it will bo interesting to note future progress.