HOTEL DESTROYED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHUKCH, 18th November.
Ashley Bank Hotel, about twenty miles from Christehurch, was completely destroyed by fire this afternoon. The building was a wooden one of twenty rooms. The'fire broke out in the kitchen near the hot-water cylinder, and spread so quickly that there was no
time to save anything but a few clothes. The hotel was built in 1901, and was owned by Mr. Walter Ford, of Christchurch. The licensee was Anthony Scahher. The furniture was insured for £1000 in the Royal Office.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1929, Page 14
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