Fire Destroys Old Hotel
(N.Z. Press Association) GISBORNE. April 14. Fire completely destroyed the Whangs ra Hotel, about 17 males from Gisborne, on Friday night The building had been unoccupied since March of last year, when the licence was revoked at the request of the lessees of the site. The two-storeyed wooden building had stood on its present site for the last 42 years, but before that, known as the Pakarae Hotel, it stood on a site overlooking the mouth of the Pakarae river. At 7.15 p.m. the Whangsra schoolteacher, Mr R. W. Parker, and his wife anw that the hotel was well attaze. The Gisborne Fire Brigade received a call »♦ 725 pm. and it was decided that there was no hope of saving the building.
“No man • has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” Abraham Lincoln.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29799, 16 April 1962, Page 14
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