HOSTEL MANAGER REPORTS
MAIN BUILDING WAS ON FIRE VERANDA PULLED DOWN BY BUS (New Zealand Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 15. “It was fortunate there were no deaths in the fire,” said the manager of the Milford Sound hostel (Mr N. Berndtson) in a, message to Wellington this afternoon. “The staff and guests were splendid. “The main building was on fire and we had to pull away the veranda connecting it with the wing. This was done with a wire rope and a Railway Road Services bus.”
The general manager (Mr L. J. Schmitt) has sent a telegram expressing his own regret at the mishap and the sympathy of the Minister (Mr F. W. Doidge) and department for the guests who had suffered loss. Mr Schmitt has arranged for the resident Ministry of Works engineer at Invercargill (Mr H. W. Smith) to go to the hostel to gfce all possible help and report on replacement needs. The Tourist Department’s chief inspector (Mr W. Stevens) went from Wellington by air this afternoon and was expected to make the road journey through the Homer Tunnel at dawn to-morrow. He will stay to assist Mr Berndtson but the manager of the Te Anau Hotel (Mr T. Tiller), who is to go in with him, will return to Te Anau to-morrow and telephone a more detailed report to the department.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26039, 16 February 1950, Page 4
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