TWENTY YEARS AGO

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32304, 25 August 1943, Page 8

TWENTY YEARS AGO

NEW PAEROA POST OFFICE

£lO,OOO VOTE ON ACCOUNT SITE NOT DECIDED UPON (From the Hauraki Plains Gazette of August 25, 1923.) It is now many years since the residents of Paeroa first put up an agitation for a new post office to be erected in Paeroa. Premiers have come and gone, and so, also have Ministers of Public Works, and all have agreed that Paeroa’s request was a genuine and urgent one. Lack of funds, however, has been the one departmental battleground, and with ' the news that this barrier has been cut down, it now seems within the bounds of providence that a start will be made. In the Public Works Statement the Hon. J. G. Coates mentions in his report that provision is being made this year for the new’ post office, and a sum of £lO,000 on account has been voted. This is indeed gratifying news, and it is sincerely to be hoped that the work will go ahead without any further delay. While in Wellington recently, the Mayor (Mr Marshall) interviewed Mr Coates, and again put forward Paeroa’s wants in this matter, and it is no doubt to his untiring efforts that the vote was placed on the Estimates this year and provision made for the work to proceed. The site has not yet been definitely decided upon, but it is generally thought that the choice will rest with that of the triangular section between Princes street and Normanby road of the section on the corner of Normanby road and Mackay street, which is directly opposite the other site.