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Description

This photograph shows the stretch of pavement outside the Chief Post Office on Main Street East. This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. The original 1906 building was extended towards Broadway and up Main Street in the early 1920s and in 1937. It was originally built with a clock tower but this was removed in 1942 after an earthquake for safety reasons and the clock and chimes were re-housed in the ‘new’ clock tower in The Square in 1957.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Po 31

Date

1981

Digitisation ID

2014P_Po31_007520

Held In

Coolstore