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Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 2

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TWO WELL-KNOWN CENTRAL OTAGO LANDMARKS WAIWATO HOTEL & !«■ mm rnmimmm si m WWm& The.su two modern buildings arc indicatiye of the flourishing conditions now becoming evident in Central Otago. The Wafpiata Hotel is one of • the earliest buildings in the M'dniototo district. Jt was built of sun-dried bricks, but during the Christmas holidays of 1.932-33 it was destroyed by fire, and has just been rebuilt, the contractors (The Love Construction Co. Ltd.) completing their contract a fortnight before Christmas. The building now contains ten bedrooms, a dining room, sitting room, public bar, private bar, spacious sun porch, and adequate bathroom accommodation. The old brick walls wore reused as much as possible in the erection of the new building. Mr Gordon R.. Stone was the architect for tho work, which involved an expenditure of £2,300. The second illustration shows Ronald's Private Hotel (Ranfurly). This modern ’two-story building has replaced tho old single-story wooden structure which served the travelling" public for many years. The main structure was pulled down in 1933 and replaced with a building containing a fine big dining room (32ft x 3’Oft), commercial room, smoking room, two large sun balconies (one enclosed with sliding glass sashes), two open ground floor porches, kitchen serverv, bathroom and lavatories, etc. The total number of bedrooms is now thirty-four, of which eighteen arc in the new block. The exterior of the building is finished in textured stucco, and the interior is electrically lighted throughout. pnroxlmat'' l -- 1 1.800 was snout in modernising this building, under the supervision of the same architect and contractors as those en'oiged on the Maipiata Hotel. The Ranfurly establishment was completed only a week before Christmas. in connection with building in Central Otago, it is interesting to note that within a lew (lays tenders arc likely 1o he called for the erection of a new licensed hotel at Ranfurly, 4 a building involving an expenditure in the vicinity of £5,000.