START SOON ON $190,000 ACCOMMODATION

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32362, 30 July 1970, Page 21

START SOON ON $190,000 ACCOMMODATION

Work on a $190,000 three-storey accommodation and restaurant block in Mandeville Street, Riccarton, will start about the middle of September.

The new building will be on the property of Trans Holdings, Ltd, along with the group’s head office, the 40-bed hotel wing opened in 1968, and the head office and reception centre of Trans Tours (N.Z.), Ltd. The building would provide accommodation for 46 persons in 23 twin rooms, the New Zealand manager of the Trans (Group (Mr K. I. Pillidge) and Mr M. J. W. Davis, the chairi man of Kipax Holdings, Ltd,

the property company associa- be of such a type that only ted with Trans Holdings in the wealthy could afford it. the project, announced yester- The restaurant would be day. designed to cater for casual Each of the 23 rooms would diners, and not only for be furnished to a high stan- guests. dard, Mr Pillidge said, but When the building was the accommodation would not completed in March next year

the whole Mandeville Street complex would have cost nearly $500,000, Mr Pillidge said. The architect for the new building is Mr G. K. Austin, and the structural engineers are Davis, Ogilvie and Associates. When work starts, the ITrans group will have three major construction programmes in hand in New Zealand. In Queenstown, the company is at present undertaking an $BOO,OOO expansion programme at its Trans Hotel, and more than $200,000 is 'being spent on a new 'restaurant and accommodation wing at the Trans Hotel at Te Anau.

When the three p-ojects are completed, their total value will be more than s3m. The company will then have 86 beds in Christchurch, 160 at Queenstown, and 130 at Te Anau. In 1972 the number of beds at Queenstown will be increased to 240.