The Strand Boarding House.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 327, 23 August 1907, Page 2

The Strand Boarding House.

For mauy years a group of bvfilings, if they could be dignified by that name, were Htuated in too close proximity to our office, and were generally termed “the sbuns,” A change has come over the scene. A month or two ago Mrs D’Arcy Hamilton, purchased the sections on which these stood and by so doing was enabled to got a legal title to the back section which d'd not front on a main road. The small boarding hot se wad iu a state of sad dilapidation, and the sheds around it were for the most part puled down, and Messrs Sneli.ug Bros., of Surrey Crescent, Auckland, undertook the contract to build a handsome addition. The SLana Boarding House, as it is laow Called, contains nine bedrooms, two sitting rooms and kitehen, also a large, airy, well lighted diuing room. The front, which in old uays was the rear o' the building, now faces on Jervois Street and has a large seven foot verandah. The section is faced bye nice picket fence and the space inside is being laid off as a garden and the whole now, instead of being an eyesore, fexms a welcome addition to our town, and Mrs 'Hamilton deserves credit for her enterprise. The work of the Snelling Bros., as contractors, ol Mr P. Ward as plumber, and Mr D. M'Donald as paper hanger, etc., are all that could be desired. Mr J. Hinton has built two very nice chimneys. The Strand Boarding House basi been let by tender and Mrs H. J. Falwasser’s te id°r was accepted (although not the h ghest) out of five tenders, and we w.sh her every success in her enterprise.