A NOTABLE EVENT

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 78, 4 May 1929, Page 5

A NOTABLE EVENT

NAPIER P08T OFFICE FOUNDATION STONE. TO BE LATD BY PRIME 311NISTER. Of cousiderable interest to Napier resident s is tbo news tliat tlie i'onndntion stone of tbe new Napier Post Offico is to be officially laid on Tbursday next, the Prime 31 inister, Sir Josepli Ward, liaving liotified bis intention of paying a visit to Napier next week in order to perform tlie ceremony. Tlie Prime 3Iinistcr, accompanied by tlie Postmaster-General, the Jlon. J. B. Donald, expects to arrive in Napier by car at about 7.30 next Wednesday evening. He will be met at tbe 3Iasonic Ilotel by a gathering representative of all the town's interests and entertained to a complimentaiy dinner on the nigbt of bis arrivalThe ceremony of laying^ tlie foundation stone, which to Napier residents rcproscnts a most important step in tlie progress toward.s completion of tlie new building, will take place, it is expectod, about three o'clock ou Tbursday afternoon, but arrangements iu this connection have yet to be fnialised. Tbe actual foundatiou stone is still in Auckland, having tlie inscrintion engraved upon it. tSir .Toseph and tbe PostmasterGeneral will spend Tbursday evening in Napier and will leave again on Friday morning, en route to Wellington.