“MARSLAND VIEW.”

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1923, Page 2

“MARSLAND VIEW.”

AN UP-TO-DATE PRIVATE HOTEL. For years New Plymouth has felt the need of additional accommodation to keep pace with the increasing influx of tourists and visitors. In the capital of Taranaki it is to be deplored that local enterprise has been so far behind in this matter, but it is encouraging to note that those interested in the business appear to have at last awakened to the fact that each holiday seamany people with much money and pass through New Plymouth, where they ought to stay, simply because they do not choose to put up with third-rate accommodation.

A search of the town could not disclose a more convenient or prettier situated site for a private hotel than that at the intersection of Leech and Liardet Streets, where stands a large airy building of many rooms recently converted by Mrs. Golding into a restful home for sojourners in Taranaki. Seated in an easy chair on the broad verandah at the front, the visitor looks out on a view of unexpected beauty. Beyond the path a sunken lawn - bordered with ferns, pungas and shrubs affords a splendid romping place for children, and commands an unobstructed glimpse of a beautiful panorama. Over a magnificent magnolia tree rises New Plymouth’s monument, Marsland Hili, from which the hotel takes its name. To the left the hoary head of old Egmont towers beyond a bank of greenery, while directly before the scene, from the slope bDViv*att'Street round past the Post Office tower, is dieplayed for comment. By from the Carrington Road exit, one has only a two minutes’ walk to the centre of the town and all tram connections. Asphalt paths lead round past lawns and rockeries to a drying green at the back. In all, there are twenty-two bedrooms, twelve upstairs and ten below, and the usual provision has been made for sitting and smoke rooms. Two bathrooms, and four conveniences complete the arrangements. The whole of the interior decorations were carried out by Purser’s, Ltd., and reflect great credit upon their artistic choice of wallpapers, carpets and furnishings. Coal and gas are both used in the kitchen block, which is of modern design, while rows of shining saucepans bespeak 1 the cleanliness, which is a feature of the establishment. In a beautiful room done in light oak, thirty people may sit down to meals. Service is of the best, and the light footfalls of hurrying waitresses are softened by a thick floor covering of inlaid colored diamonds; light is admitted through French windows along two sides and a skylight near the door. A popular lounge and smoke room is discovered off the verandah. While shaded, this room is made enticing by reason of three of its sides being constructed solely of windows. That necessary adjunct, the office, is situated at the end of the entrance passage, a compact, business-like, room. The proprietress (Mrs. Golding) is well known in New Plymouth. Her management of “Rahui” left nothing to be desired, and now that she controls the beautiful

“Marsland View,” one may expect to find the same unfailing courtesy and kindly treatment extended to all who visit there.