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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]

Hotels

Hotels.

The Egmont Hotel (Alfred John Jury, proprietor), corner of High Street and Princes Street, Hawera. This hotel was established in the sixties, and was acquired by the present proprietor in the year 1906. The “Egmont” stands on a section of three-quarters of an acre, and is a large two-storied wood and iron building. It contains fifty rooms, including twenty-five bedrooms, eight sitting rooms, a commodious commercial room, a billiard room, and a dining room, which will seat sixty guests. Behind the hotel there are large and convenient stables.

Mr. Alfred John Jury, Proprietor of the Egmont Hotel, was born in the year 1859, in New Plymouth, where he was educated, and brought up to the building trade, which he page 242 followed for a period of twenty years at Hawera, in Auckland, and in Melbourne. He subsequently became proprietor of the Commercial Hotel at Normanby, and sixteen months later removed to Hawera, and took over the Shamrock Hotel, which he conducted for four years. Mr. Jury then acquired the Okaiawa Hotel, which he managed for three years and eight months before taking over the Egmont Hotel. He was for a time a member of the Okaiawa school committee; has been one of the committee of management of the Taranaki Rugby Union since 1903, and is a member of the Hawera Jockey Club. Mr. Jury has owned racehorses for a number of years. In 1890 he married a daughter of the late Mr. John Leake Creswick, of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, and has two daughters and two sons.

Egmont Hotel.

Egmont Hotel.

Mr. John Flynn, who is a resident of Hawera, was at one time proprietor of the Railway Hotel in that town. Mr. Flynn's family, of six daughters and four sons, possess musical talents of a high order, and the instruments they play form a complete orchestra.

Mr. J. Flynn

Mr. J. Flynn