SOLDIERS’ CLUB AND SOCIAL HALL.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1923, Page 2

SOLDIERS’ CLUB AND SOCIAL HALL.

BUILDING SITE FIXED. At a joint meeting yesterday afternoon bv tbe Chairman and Members of tho Hokitika High School Board and the Returned Soldiers’ Association, the site for the Soldiers’ Club and Social Hall in Sewell St. was lixed definitely. The site adjoins that of the Government Building, being, separated by a rj.rhfc of way. The members ol the Board suggested that the . building should ho kept well hack from the Street, so as not to obscure the view of the Seddon Monument, and the Government building, and thin was agreed to. This will enable a neat front to bo prepared including a green and flower beds as in the case of tlu Government building. Ihe width the building will he increased also to afford essential space m the 1 room, and an enlargement of the supnor room. , , • The members of the Board snfTSVnction with the draft plans o, the building, realising that it would be a substantial acquisition to the town have so tine an edifice. On behalf of the R.S.A. Ml L'->‘s expressed thanks to the Chairman and members of the Board for the generous v.-av in which the application had been received and dealt with, am »™l> the special condition imposed that t. c buildings was not to be disposed o <>. the lease transferred without authority from the Board. , , \ contract has been let for the < .•>■ i„; of the section, and the wcciffintions for the budding ; u ,!rs,. CE' hngtli on the upper side. ,->U. n - t 0 he med Tins' Will make