HEAVY LOSS OF GLASSES FROM LOCAL HOTELS
It’s not only beer glasses which are regularly taken from Whakatane hotels—bedroom tumblers disappear just as steadily. An hotel manager said this yesterday when he was asked if the football season had made for any increase in the theft of glasses. Loss of glasses was part of the normal overhead of the hotel business, he said, and he did not consider that footballers were any more likely to take glasses than was anyone else.
Six dozen glasses a month would be a conservative estimate of his loss from theft, he said. Few glasses were broken.
He did not agree that the branding of glasses would cause thefts to decrease. Rather, he thought, there would be the opposite effect. Any glass a little different from any other was likely to b taken as a souvenir.
•‘Anyway,” he said, “we look on such losses as part of the business. Guests regularly take glasses from bedrooms. It’s not only the bar customers who take them.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 84, 18 August 1950, Page 5
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