The New Hotel Question.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1835, 21 May 1886, Page 3

The New Hotel Question.

To the Editor of the Standard. Sts, —The question of having another Hotel in Greytvwn has lately excited a considerable amount of discussion, and a number of correspondents have expressed their views on the subject in letters to your journal. The proposal to have a hotel erected on the site near the centre of the town, and a little sooth of Mr F. H. Wood's auction rooms, has been objected to, on the tangible ground that there are already two hotels only a very little disttnM from that site, and th ,t it would be needless to build another in tent part of the township. There is much force and retfon m this objection. If a new hotel is to beboiltjt sh uid be on a site in the southern part of Ureytrwn. and yet not too far distant from its centre. I do not therefore think that it would be advisable to have a new hotel sc very cloce to tiiore already in existence, dome people, however, hold the view that any oew hotel propped should he placed in the r.rtr,-me south end of the township, and almost adjoining the railway station The objections to this ptop..sa, are obvious. A hotel in that, quarter won d re oeive very little oust m horn the residents of (ireytown, as being situated too far from the centre of the township. Certainly s me visitors to (ireytown who came by rail mvnt patronise such a hotel, as being close at baud when they arrived Rut if they had to do they would require to walk hack and forward between their In lei and the ceutie of the township, which would r. suit in inconvenience and has of time. The 11 ink tie Post and Telegraph Office, and ah the at. r* s and shops would be a lung way lo in this hot. hand commercial travellers would tin.! ti.at their temporary place of abode wis bid y chosen. It will thus lie perceive 1 that there are wt.gbty objections having ahj 'tel at the extreme south end of tire t:\vn»h.,>. Ine Pet and most feasible proposal is to have a large new hotel eree'ed on the sue lormeriy occupied for many years by the Rising him HoUl. This locality would appear to present the great'st share of advantage for the erection of t new hote l. A hotel there woul l supply s want felt by the inhabitants id the soot hern part of the township ; it W"Uld be conveniently situated as being within easy reach of the Railway Station, while it would not be too far distant from the central and brume*t quarter ■{ the township. Besides this, the erection of a hotel on the site re fmed to means simply the renewal of a former licensed house, which was in existence lor a good many years. It is not an application for a new license, bnt for the renewal of a formerly existing license, which will be made in tb« cm id question. Tb*t being the mm, it ie possible that the Licensing Committee will be disposed to grant the applieation. It also remains to be said that the proposed new hotel will be a large and commodious one, replete with every convenience for the accommodation and comfort of travellers and visitors. If there is to be another hotel in Grey town, It ia absolutely indispensable that it sboold be a flrst-clsaa boose, end 1 believe that this condition will be tally complied with in the esse of the building proposed to be erected. Taking all the fasts of tk. ease into consideration I am hiHsei In think that if Oreytown is to hsve rmothse hotel the most enovenieot locality in which it eonld bs bwilt would be the old site fl “ TW Biatag om.” lam. Ac., X.