WAVERLEY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 301, 21 December 1933, Page 3

WAVERLEY

NEW HOTEL Travellers through Waverley during the past few weeks have not failed to notice the addition to the buildings in the main street, where a new hotel was recently erected to replace that destroyed by fire during the winter. Standing on the corner of Bear Street and Wereroa Road, the new building presents an attractive appearance, being made in the style of an old Spanish inn. Red tiles compose the roof, while the walls are of boss-tinted stucco. A small Spanish balcony with two oriole windows makes an attractive finish on one end of the building, while overhanging verandah roofs shelter ’ the main entrance. Here two large swing glass doors gi.e entrance to a spacious hall, from which open the private bar, office and lounge. In the lounge the furnishing is of mole and delphinium blue moquette, with large sofas and easy chairs ’to tempt the weary. A private telephone box and a lounge bar open off the lounge, from which The stairs lead to the first floor. The dining-room is large and cool-looking and is panelled with California red pine, with curtains of shadow tissue in pale blue and deeper blue tonings. Swing doors make entrance to the kitchen convenient and easy. Table ware is in pretty flowered china, while the Axminster carpet is of deeper blue shadings. Upstairs, the bedrooms appear very attractive in gay coloured cretonne furnishings. Each room is fitted with polished New Zealand rimu with bevelled cheval mirrors, while the beds are covered with most attractive spreads of the same cretonne as the curtains, with bands of toning plain material. Each of the ten bedroom has its own matching carpet and linoleum, one of the rooms being in ixia blues, another in nasturtiums, and others in rose pinks, and creams and yellows. Everything has been designed to give comfort and all appurtenances are of latest design. The contractors for the building were Messrs Walpole and Patterson, while Messrs. Piper and Brooker, of Auckland; were the architects. SCHOOL CAKE COMPETITION At the break-up concert in the Town Hall last Tuesday evening by the school pupils, the cake competition was drawn and the winner proved to be Mrs. E. H. Metcalfe, with the number 171.