HOTEL ACCOMMODATION.
A NEED IN NEW PLYMOUTH. A meeting was held on Wednesday evening to consider a scheme brought forward bv Mr. J. W. Harden for the erection of a large modern hotel on the site of the Terminus Hotel. The plans of the proposed building, which were executed by Mr. Bates, architect, provide for a three-storied building in ferroconcrete, running lemrth-wise with the esplanade and extending to St. Aubyn Street. The proposed balconies are wide, the dining room accommodation is 160, and the bedrooms 107, with four piivate suites, and the total cost, including one and a half acres of'land, and the licensing rights, etc., is estimated at £33,000.
Mr. Harden remarked that there was a very keen and growing demand for hotel accommodation in Now Plymouth, and visitors were'.preforee turned away in the holiday seasons. An up-to-date hotel, built and run on American lines, would prove, he was certain, not only an advantage to the town but a good investment. The idea had been mooted by the Expansion and Tourist League, and only about a year and a half ago a small syndicate was prepared to purchase the present hotel and build on the site an up-to-date hotel, 'but the arrangements fell through at tho last moment, tie was sure that if the hotel were occupied only six months of the year the yield would be 10 per cent, on the capital invested. It was proposed that both the dining-room and the bar should be leased. As to the cost of the building, Mr. Hayden did not think they could look to a very marked decrease in the near future; there was every indication that the cost of labor would not come down, and materials for many years to come would remain high. Cement and gravel, the chief materials used in building construction, had. not altered a great deal. He was sure the project was worthy of close examination, and, if gone on with, would prove of inestimable value to tho town.
It was deeideil to adjourn the meeting till this afternoon, at four o'clock, at the Soldiers' Club.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1917, Page 8
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351HOTEL ACCOMMODATION. Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1917, Page 8
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