The building has a small internal working space. On the outside there is a service window for customers and several post boxes for customers use. At the time of placing the cache there was no indication the post boxes are currently in use. However NB There is no need to open the boxes to find the cache.
Finding this gem during a recent visit to the area evoked many happy memories of teenage years spent at Little Akaloa. The two communites were closely related and as teenagers in the 1960s we roamed the area at will. A number of dances were held at the Chorlton Hall. New Years a favourite. We frequented the Post Office shop at Little Akaloa regularly for supplies timing our visits for the arrival of the rural delivery van. Presumably the Chorlton Post Office was open to coincide with the same deliveries. Both have been closed in the intervening years.
A google search reveals a public notice in the Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 3832, 7 March 1919. The Lyttleton District Electoral Roll was available to view at district Post Offices. Chorlton and Little Akaloa Post Offices are included in the list. Further research would be interesting.
The cache is a 400ml sistema containing the usual accessories