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“...‘Stores.”
General
lip Post Office.
Savannah.
I; Government
| House.
142 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
citizens, Mr. Hipolite Borde. Port of Spain has
excellent stores, as the shops are called, built
of stone or concrete, with lantern roofs and orna-
mental iron galleries, and every conceivable
necessity of life can be obtained in Frederick
Street and Marine Square. The General Post
Office in St. Vincent Street is open from 7 a.m.
to 4 p.m. ; on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to noon;
and on Sundays and public holidays from 7 a.m.
to 8 p.m. The Savannah, known as Queen’s
Park, an extensive open space of nearly 130 acres,
is the centre of life in Trinidad, round which
is the fashionable residential quarter. It has few
trees except round the edge, but a clump of cabbage
palms popularly known as the Seven Sisters forms
a particularly noticeable feature. The Savannah
is covered with grass, on which golf, polo, base-
ball, football, and other games are played. It
is here also that the racecourse, with its...”
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