By Betty Laver
Before taking up Targinnie Station, Richard Palmer built a home on the corner of Goondoon and Lord Streets. In 1865 Samuel Evans purchased the house and converted it into a hotel that he named the Metropolitan. He advertised his business as “a quiet retreat with moderate charges, a luxury not to be procured with safety in any other part of town”. The town baths had been erected near Friends store on Auckland Creek in 1874 and just opposite the hotel. (Bathing at this time was at communal baths as no buildings had bathrooms in them.)
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