LICENSING TRUST
HOTEL SOUTHLAND OPENED
(P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Nov. 4. The Hotel Southland, in South Invercargill, the first hotel to be erected by the Licensing Trust, was officially opened to-day. The chairman of the Trust, Mr H. Ritchie, said the building had been erected in the face of considerable difficulties such as shortages of materials and labour. The aim of the Trust was to conduct model hotels and to make drinking a pleasant social custom—not a matter of excess.
Mr W. M. P. Denham, M.P., who officially declared the hotel open, said that there had been a good ideal of objection to its erection at 'a time when houses were so badly needed, but he thought the erection of the Hotel Southland was justified. _ It would meet a special need in providing accommodation for people from the country. ' “ 1 believe that if a vote were taken now,” he added, “ the people of Invercargill would vote in favour olf Trust control and against the running of the hotels of the city by private enterprise.”
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Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 4
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172LICENSING TRUST Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 4
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