OLD HOTEL DESTROYED
CANTERBURY LANDMARK' (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Eire destroyed the Hilltop Hotel, an J; old landmark on Banks Peninsula, last H evening. Virtually nothing was saved. Suit was a double storey wooden building, I! built in 1880, a popular stopping place | in the old coaching days. The building $; was owned by Mr. 11. J. Beil, of ChristI'church, and insured for £9oo* in the |! Mouth British office. Mr. M. Betty, the ] licensee, is a heavy loser. | The Government telephone bureau also was destroyed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 8
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