Post Office Square was once a vital and vibrant hub of old Invercargill and gave the City a sheltered functional town center until 1938 when the NZ government decided Invercargill would put a new post office on this land instead. Decades following this decision Invercargill has struggled to establish a new town center and in a lot of ways is still searching to find a sufficient replacement.
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Editors Note - First Post Office - The old post and telegraph office was built in stages beginning in 1875, it was eventually complete with north and south wings adjoining with a central clock tower by 1894.