"OLD GLUEPOT."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 209, 3 September 1937, Page 14

"OLD GLUEPOT."

HOTEL CHANGES HANDS. ' I SUM OF £65,000 PAID. I A - famous Ponsonby landmark, the Ponsonby Club Hotel, better known to most Aueklanders as "The Old Gluepot," has changed hands. Recently rebuilt at a cost of approximately £20,000, the hotel has been sold by the present licensee, Mr. Alfred Adams, to Mr. William Grant for a sum of £05,000. The old building recently demolished was for over 60 years a well-known Auckland structure. The kauri timbers taken from it then were as sound as they were when the hotel was built on a paddock at the Three Lamps corner. Modern and imposing, the present building is the outstanding unit of Ponsonby's business area.

The present owner, Mr. Adams, was born in Auckland and has many interests here. He intends to remain in the city. Mr. Grant is well known throughout.the Xorth Island as a licensee of hotels in Hawke's Bay, Northern Wairoa and Auckland. For some time he was manager of the hotel which he has now purchased.