Main Post Office

Description

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 Hopwood Clock Tower in The Square in 1957.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Po 17

Date

circa 1963

Digitisation id

2014P_Po17_007511

Held in

Coolstore