POST OFFICE SITE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 932, 27 March 1930, Page 8

POST OFFICE SITE

SURREY CRESCENT PEOPLE PERTURB!! WRONG PLACE SELECTED Businessmen and residents of 1 Surrey Crescent are perturbed by the report that the new post office for the district is to be erected opposite the Grey Lynn Library instead of in the business centre at the second section tram teri minus. A petition of protest is being circulated for presentation to the Postmaster-General. To a Sun representative lust evening a prominent business man at the Crescent spoke strongly on the subject. “We have been promised a post : office for 17 years,” lie said, “and now j when it is in sight it is to be placed ! right out of the way both of resiI dents and business people. The people : it would serve are only a few in the vicinity of the library; there are no shops or business premises there. The business people here would have to journey out of their way and the resi- : dents would also find it inconvenient, i “It would be ridiculous to piece the I post office in any place other than here in the centre of the Crescent. 1 This is the main shopping centre in the district: in fact, the only centru in the district which the post office will serve. In addition it is the endof the second tram section and tho • junction for Point Chevalier and tho western suburbs, and is more central. In fact, there is every argument hi favour of the post office being erected : in this centre and in the quickest; j possible time.” Approached on the subject, a resident -was also outspoken. “For years we have been awaitim? ; the advent of a post office! We hav,\ had the inconvenience of either goingjto Arch Hill or Newton on postal : business and have awaitef with i patience the day when we will bo. properly catered for,’ ! said the in. dignant resident. “And now. when if. seems that our hopes will be realised we find that a post office is to be erected in a place which will be nearly as inconvenient. Surely the departmental officers responsible have some brains. Even a child can see how silly it would be to erect a post office opposite the library when there is a place available right in the heart of the shopping centre. It is time the Post and Telegraph Department gave us service, and we want service in the right place.” Business men and residents are cooperating to bring to the notice of the Postmaster-General what they consider is a grave injustice.