The Levin Hotel - Kete Horowhenua

Topic: The Levin Hotel

This hotel was located on the southern corner of Oxford Street and Queen Street West.

	Pictured around 1890:
	Levin Hotel is visible on the left of this photo. BUT uncertain of occasion as different copies have different descriptions: either: showing the Welcome Home to men from the Boer War – 1903 or:The service to commemorate the death of Edward VII, 1910.
	Levin Hotel in 1918 at the Armistice Day celebrations:
	The Levin Hotel in the 1920s.Became the New Levin Hotel.

The hotel advertised in the newspapers - for example:

In the New Zealand Truth of 24 April 1909:

In the Truth 23 August 1913:

5O ROOMS BEAUTI FULLY FURNISHED.

REBUILT AND NOW OPEN TO CUSTOMERS.

E. C. HIGGINS, Proprietress.

In the New Zealand Truth of 15 July 1922:

However not all reports in the papers were complimentary - this stinging report was in the Evening Post of 7 December 1906:

The Papers Past website shows that the hotel changed hands quite frequently - these are just some entries for the Levin Hotel:

5 March 1896	Tranfser of ownership of the Levin Hotel from F.L. Garland to R. Buckeridge.
21 March 1905	The lease and furniture of the Levin Hotel, was sold to Mr. Charles Harrison, late of the Imperial Hotel, New Plymouth.
8 February 1908	Mr Thomas D Thomas’ interest in the lease, goodwill and furniture of the Levin Hotel, Levin, was sold to Mr Frank Rhodes, late of Bulls.
7 March 1910:	Levin Hotel transfer of license from Frank Rhodes to John Berriman.