Hutt City Library Online Database
Main Title: Post Office at Taita opens this week
Imprint: 1946
Notes: Indexes: Filing Cabinet
Summary: A temporary Post Office building (pending permanent premises) opened in August 1946 with a staff postmaster to tramnsact all classes of business. Project claim that mail comes from Lower Hutt rather than through Taita branch of the Post Office. Ill.
Language: English
Subject: Taita Post Office
Taita
Heritage resources

Hutt City Library Online Database
Main Title: Post Offices at Taita, Blackbridge and Moera
Imprint: 9-Dec-40
Notes: Indexes: Filing Cabinet
Summary: Early history of post offices in Taita and Moera.
Language: English
Subject: Taita
Moera
Post Offices
Taita
Heritage resources

Hutt City Library Online Database
Main Title: Taita Post Office
Imprint: 1947
Notes: Indexes: E14
Summary: Opposite current Post Office in Taine Street. Photo taken 21.6.47.
Language: English
Subject: Post Offices
Heritage resources
– photo in scrapbook attached to AA Postal (RIN 807)

Wellington Independent 20 February 1868
POSTAL
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Several appointments have also been made to the post offices in the Wairarapa
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and Mr George Hedges to the Taita

Wellington Independent 10 January 1873
The Toll Gate Act passed by the Provincial Council, and recently come into operation, is creating some dissatisfaction amongst the public at large and the Hutt settlers, the latter especially, but chiefly on account of the inconvenient nature of the tax. Without discussing the abstract merits of such a mode of raising a revenue, no one will doubt the absurdity and inconvenience of the way in which it is effected. Nothing certainly could be devised that would be productive of more awkwardness and irritation than demanding two-pence toll from every passenger in a vehicle, mail carts included, and it is not surprising that people should ridicule the system. A still further inconvenience has been superinduced by the same piece of legislation. For the last three years the people of the Hutt and Taita have been accustomed to receive their letters and papers every morning and afternoon, the Government having been used to run two mails a day. As a sort of equivalent for the service the contractors were allowed to run their coaches free of tollage. Now, however, under the new state of things, a direct subsidy is asked for, and the Government has reduced the mail service to once a day. Considering the length of time which the country people living along the Hutt line of road have enjoyed two mails a-day, it is but natural they should be desirous of seeing the old system continued. Perhaps the General Government, in considering the matter, may see their way to resume the old arrangements, especially as we understand the cost would be very small, not exceeding about two pounds per month.

Evening Post 30 October 1878
TENDERS FOR INLAND MAIL SERVICE
The following tenders for inland mail service, in the Wellington Postal District, were accepted late last evening:-
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Hutt and Taita, twice daily, J. Cadby (sic) 50 per annum
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The above are for 2 years.
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Evening Post 1 September 1880
– Tenders for mails service

Evening Post 15 August 1896
TENDERS FOR INLAND MAIL SERVICES FOR 1897, 1898, AND 1899.
General Post Office.
Wellington 7th August, 1896
SEALED Tenders will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, until MONDAY, the 28th September, 1896, for the Conveyance of Mails between the under-mentioned places, for a period of THREE years, from the 1st January, 1897, to the 31st December, 1899.
POSTAL DISTRICT OF WELLINGTON.
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36. Hutt Railway Station, Hutt Post Office, Blackbridge, and Taita, twice daily.
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Evening Post 24 August 1906
TENDERS FOR INLAND MAIL SERVICES FOR 1907, 1908, and 1909.
General Post Office.
SEALED TENDERS will be recieved at the several Chief Post Offices in the colony until Monday, the 24th September, 1906, for the Conveyance of Mails between the undermentioned placed, for a period of THREE years, from the 1st January, 1907, to the 31st December, 1909.
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POSTAL DISTRICT OF WELLINGTON
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42. Hutt Post Office and Railway Station, thrice daily; also Hutt and Taita, twice daily
43. Hutt and Wainuiomata, twicw weekly. (Alternative No. 112A.)
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Evening Post 15 December 1936
LOST, Tyre and Tube on Rim, between Taita Hotel and Taita Post Office; reward. The Oaks, Taita.