Our Post Office

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43375, 19 September 1908, Page 2

Our Post Office

About eighteen months ago the Premier, while on a visit to Te Aroha. had his attention drawn to the antiquated post office used in this disiriot. Sir Joseph Ward, recognising the truthfulness of the statement, promised to let us have a new and more up-to-date office within two years. IJp to the present nothing has been done, with the exception of a little patching, At the present time about a dozen hands are engaged in a 25 x 14 room, a good portion of which is taken up with counters, sorting-tables and fixtures. It is positively a disgrace to expect the ever-increasing work of this important office to be satisfactorily carried out in such a place. In a supplementary order paper just received from Wellington we learn that Mr Herne i jasked the Postmaster-General if his attention had been called to theinecessity of re-building or enlarging the Te Aroha Post Office, and whether he will place a sufficient sum on the estimates for that purpose ? He received a reply that “ the Te Aroha office was reported upon in February last. It was stated that, although the building was getting old, it would serve for years, and that all that was likely to be necessary at the time was an enlargement of the counter. The counter is now being enlarged and other renovations are being carried out, which will meet the case for the present.”

We doubt if the renovations mentioned will fill the bill, we trust they will. The building since it was erected a quarter of a century ago, has been renovated, altered and patch, times out of number. The erection of a new building would be more in keeping with tho requirements of the district.