TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10966, 8 May 1907, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

The temperance hotels in Wellington will, by the. end qf the year, be added to by one to be erected in Cuba street 'by the Army. It is intended to pull clown the Paulina Home and the adjoining headquarters' offices, and erect upon tue rite- a thtree-storey brick hotel or Peoplete Palace* The new building will havb a frontage to Cuba street of about 100ft, and wiir'.ruri back to the next street in the rear. Its cost will be approximately JBBOOO. It is to be "run" purely as a commercial venture. Single rooms or suites will be available, and six shops will' be erected on the ground faVjor, the frontage of _the whole, of the "resjl of the buildirtjr bemg deviled to ' acu6mmoda ! ti6n for the payihff pubTic. A For those who cannot pay thte Army will still cater at its shelter for men in Btf'ckle' street and its new Home for Women in Owen street, . which is to be formally opened on the 22nd inst. Mr James Allen^. M.H.K., delivered a: lecture m the Otagp Boys* High School in connection? with the school branch- of the Navy League, 'the subject being;''Seesteirn'j (Star' off the' Sea), the v name pf an. iniaginary accburit-pf a grea^ war on-land and sea, whiiihl lias had an immense circulation in Germany' during the last year or two> and wliich has rendered great service in ifurthering the cause of the German Ntvyy League. ' Allen gave an account of the book, and while disclaiming •any hostility to Germany, he pointed out the great 'effort? which were being made in that country to build up a really powerful, navy, no doubt with the ultimate inteiititih of rivalling. England's naval supremacy. Mr Allen dwelt upon, the necessity for England and Britishers generailly maintaining the nayy and the Empire which' depended 'oh it, and of preserving the great- inheritance wliich had been left them, and urgea upon the boys tHe supreme importance of character anddevotion to duty. ' .