THE GLASGOW COFFEE PALACE, CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1070, 8 September 1910, Page 23

THE GLASGOW COFFEE PALACE, CHRISTCHURCH.

The owners of the well-known Coker’s Hotel in Manchester-street have cut off the south wing and made it into a coffee palace. The hotel was too large for the exclusive trade of Coker’s. Mr. F. P. Smith, who has had considerable experience in private hotel management, is the fortunate proprietor of the Coffee Palace under review. And he is fortunate in having secured such commodious premises combined with his restaurant. The dining hall is large and well furnished with small tables and everything appertaining to comfort, cleanliness and light. As late proprietor of the Billingsgate Restaurant, his catering is widely known, and patrons of the “ Glasgow” are ever ready with praise for the excellency of the good meals and dainty suppers to be had there. The accommodation for the travelling public is firstclass at moderate rates. The bedrooms are just as they w r ere in Coker’s time. A special room is reserved for ladies. The main stair entrance leads to a beautiful lounge, from which the bedrooms are reached. There are also hot, cold and shower baths, and, in fact, everything comfortable and good at very much less cost than hotel charges. A speciallyreduced rate is made for visitors staying a week or more, and the same liberal reduction is made to those having meals by the week.