The New Post office Plans.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 792, 7 April 1905, Page 2

The New Post office Plans.

GOVERNMENT ALONE RESPONSIBLE FOlt DELAY. The old subject of the plans for the erection of the new post office woB referred to at Thursday night's meeting of the Works Committee. I. Cr. Wilson drew attention to the | olenram publisHtd that day in which I the Minister for Public Works attributed the more recent delays to tho | Borough Council. The telegram stalled that the Public Works Depart|ment had written to tlic Borough Council for permission for tho portico and doqk tower to project over the Devon Street footpath, but had i received no reply. Cr. W.taon point- , ed out that this message created a wroi% impression on the public i mind. The fault lay entirely with ■ ( the Government, and he would like the Press to note that no such application as that mentioned had been made to tho Borough Council. The Council were only too willing to expedite the work'. Cr. Hrooßittg, who presided, supported Cr. Wilson's remarks. When the application was made some time ago by the Council to the Government that a clock tower should bo aTtachoii over the proposed new post loifflce, they agreed to raise a sum of |£2oo on the understanding that the : government subsidised this amount ■ jby £3OO, for the purpose of erecting • agooit clock. The Government woro uskod to build the tower projecting over the footpath in order that the clock should be prominent, but ro- > plied, however, that they could not ■ agree lo this request, for the reason that when Government money wo 9 allocated the structure must be wholly on Government ground, No ■ application as mentioned 'in the 1 telegram has ever been received by - the Council. The Council would be very pleasod to give permission, and 1 * e this long delayed work commenc- ! «a.