Mount Maunganui Postal Service

SummaryPostal services at Mount Maunganui were recorded as early as 1933, when the Town Board rented a cottage opposite a small Post Office then situated at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Maunganui Road for use as its office (A History of Mount Maunganui, p. 47). By 1937, the Post Office was operating from a modest room at the rear of Barney’s Store, accessed from the south side of Pacific Avenue.

The Jennings family (Frank, Ra and Felix Jennings) built a purpose-built timber structure in 1941 on Maunganui Road at a cost of about £800. Photographs locate this fairly close to Mauao.

The photograph ascribed to it's construction show it close to Mauao yet the site was apparently build on later and recorded at 517 Maunganui Road. We'd like to resolve this contradiction, please contact us if you have further details.

It was officially opened by local MP Sir F. W. Doidge on 29 September 1941, when Mount Maunganui’s population was only around 400. Ra Jennings was the first to receive a Post Office Box (No. 26). The building served until 1979, when it was sold and removed to allow construction of a new single-storey, 400 m² Post Office designed by the Post Office Architects. Opened in two stages between late 1979 and 1980, this replacement facility continued postal operations on the same location at 517 Maunganui Road (Bay of Plenty Times, 15 September 1978; 6 December 1979).SourcesBay of Plenty Times, 15 September 1978Bay of Plenty Times, 6 December 1979

South Auckland SO45132 Sheet 1 (1970)

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Date Establishedc. 1933

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Start here:The Emergence of the Postal Service in Tauranga

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Mount Maunganui Postal Service