£lo,ooo MAORI HOSTEL TO BE OPENED THIS MONTH
Work on a modern guest-house for out-of-town Maoris visiting their relatives and friends in the Rotorua Hospital is nearing completion. The house will have five small and fiye double bedrooms. Built under a scheme sponsored by the Women’s Health League, the building is to be named The Janet Fraser Memorial Guest House after the late wife of the Prime Minister. Mrs. Fraser was the league’s first patroness. The official opening will be performed by Mr. Fraser on August 28.
Maoris visiting Rotorua will be able ti obtain a bed and breakfast at a reasonable cost in a well-appointed house adjacent to the hospital. The tariff lias been fixed at 10s a day and the maximum length of stay of any guest will be three days. The cost of the building, about £IO,OOO, has been contributed by various Maori organisations, the ’ Maori Land Board, and the Government. The furnishings will cost an additional £2OOO and this sum has been raised by the Women’s Health League, which will own the guest house and also hold a lease in perpetuity of the land.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22707, 4 August 1948, Page 6
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188£l0,000 MAORI HOSTEL TO BE OPENED THIS MONTH Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22707, 4 August 1948, Page 6
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