Stayed Asleep While Building Was Shifted
-THS Prstr Srwcwi Service
AUCKLAND. April 30 A shift worker stayed asleep while contractors moved an old Henderson boarding house with him and his bed in it The contractors moved the house, the Hotel Centra! in Station road. 45 feet back from the street frontage to make way for extensions to sixshops and two new shops. The proprietor. Mr S Otteh. »aid: -I was assured by the contractors that it would be perfectly safe for the seven occupants to stay tn the house. “But 1 didn't expect one of them to stay fast asleep right throujjh the operation * •Hte I otel&a! is IN years old. Until 1910 it was
a licensed hotel ft began life as the Oratia Hotel its name to the Falls Hotel, then lost its licence and “cgmethe Hotel Central toUies recall Mat'th?a™ P®* offiee m ‘h« was attached to the „ h '? rt fcauri > still in < 2_ ln ,he bmldmg. originally east 7s a The contractors wifi put the xounda-!
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29501, 1 May 1961, Page 12
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