NEW SERVICES HOSTEL

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 281, 26 August 1942, Page 3

NEW SERVICES HOSTEL

Opening This Afternoon

Tlie new Combined Services Hostel, on tlie corner of Dixon and Sturdee Streets, only three minutes’ walk from Manners Street (via Herbert Street), will be formally opened this afternoon at 3 o'clock by the mayoress, Mrs. Hislop. There will be present the deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Sullivan, the Minister of Defence, Mr. .Jones, and the American Consul-General, Air. Cox.’ Among those invited are members of the National Patriotic Board, the -Metropolitan and Provincial Patriotic Committees, lhe mayor and members of the Wellington City Council, the members of the council of the Wellington W:A Relief Association, and others who have interested themselves in the project. The hostel, a large brick building of three floors, will provide at once a meeting place for servicemen, and all-night accommodation. There will be beds for 250 servicemen, also a bureau of information, recreation rooms,'reading and writing rooms and lounge rooms. The place has been reconditioned and reappointed throughout. Such a rendezvous right in the heart of the business part of the city lias been wanted for two years past. It will be run on lines similar to the other Combined Services Hostel in Sydney Street.