Old Post Office to Go: Much Needed Street Widening Ax will have been seen from an! advertisement a big scheme of pro-Perty development ix about to take place in Szechuen Roud, with the demolition of the block which ins cludes the old Chinese Post Office, The area of the property, which belongs to Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Ca, is extensive, reaching.
ard Building to the Post having frontages also on Peking and Museum Roads, and 9 big public improvement "will be effected with the surrender of several feet of the Szechuen Road frontage for much needed widening. of that thoroughfare, The post office buildin to be a very. up-to-date but the rapid) growth hai, and with it the postal Tendered the "life" of the ite particular shorter than might have been exted. The rest of the property'
nnaixts of Chinese shops and dwell igs of considerable age. When the ian been cleared, uw range of first-clare shops of four storeys will be erected on the Szechuen Road and Peking Road frontages, and the rest the space will he tak
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