SECOND HOSTEL
EXHIBITION VISITORS
More building speed records are being put up in the erection of the Exhibition Hotel at Kilbirnie, and by all the present signs the main construction should be completed with a margin to spare before opening day in November. Interior fittings and furnishings are ■ going along in step.
A second hostel, also at Kilbirnie, on Harbour Board land in the triangle on which the Post Office stands, is making a still later start, but, as in the bigger hotel, the construction is of temporary nature, fast progress will be made, necessarily so, with only three months to go. The Exhibition Hotel will accommodate 500 to 600 visitors, and the second guest house, a private venture, about 130. The Exhibition Hotel will not be removed at once after the Exhibition, but will carry on as a means of relieving the housing shortage in Wellington, at any rate for five years, under the tentative arrangement agreed to by the City Council at a recent meeting. No definite statement has been made, but it is likely that it will be used as a hostel for junior members of the Civil Service.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 7
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192SECOND HOSTEL Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 7
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