Hastings Post Office Postcard
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Description
Postcard caption – “Post Office, Hastings”
Clapham Series
Situated in Station Street (later changed to Russell Street North)
Built in 1910
Clock tower and masonry came down in the 1931 earthquake, killing senior Hawke’s Bay Tribune reporter AL Ryan
The new post office was rebuilt on the same site and opened the following year.
Signs on buildings and advertising hoardings –
“GRAND HOTEL
G. [?] B. MACKAY HASTINGS PROPRIETOR
FIRST CLASS UP TO DATE ACCOMMODATION
TELEGRAPH
FURNITURE
TOMBS & [AND] GRUBB,
Heretaunga ST [STREET] [?]
GOD SAVE THE KING
LONG MAY HE REIGN
FISH
T.[?] CLARKSON
SEED, GRAIN &
FODDER MERCHANT
QUEEN STREET.”
Location
Station Street, HastingsFormat of the original
PostcardAcknowledgements
Published with permission of Hawke's Bay Today
People
- A L Ryan
Accession number
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