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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 January 1929, Page 9

The fire which razed Glade House at Lake Te Anau to tiie ground lias shown the absolute necessity for a strongroom or a strong safe in which tourists who are setting off on Milford track may deposit their valuables. A party of wealthy American tourists, who have been travelling in New Zealand, returned to Dunedin on Saturday night with practically nothing in their possession but the clothes they wore. They had the munificent sum of 2s 9d in cash and the. remains of some valuable jewellery, which was burnt in the five. Their notes and letters of credit were all destroyed, leaving them in an awkward predicament. The officer in charge of the Tourist Department arranged for their passage to Wellington, where they had fortunately left their largest trunks*