The Post and Telegraph Office , Holkitika, stands at the junction of Sewell Street and Gibson's Quay, and was built in the year 1872. The postal district extends from Teremakau to Jackson's Bay, and includes forty-two sub-offices. There are eighty-four private letter boxes, a telephone exchange with 109 subscribers, and twenty-three bureaus connected with the office. About forty-seven mails are received or despatched on an average every day. Within the town of Hokitika there are two daily deliveries of letters. The staff includes the Chief Postmaster and eighteen clerks, operators, and messengers.