HOTEL CHARGES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18968, 5 April 1927, Page 9

HOTEL CHARGES.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' RATES. [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, April 4. Commercial travellers in conference in Auckland to-day decided that_ if they pressed a Wellington suggestion that hotel concession rates should be available for the wife and the children of a traveller they might in effect kill the goose that laid the golden egg. The Wellington president, Mr E. T. James, had complained that travellers were debarred from taking their wives and children with them as hotelkeepers charged ordinary full tariff. If a concession was available to members of the Automobile Club, he argued, then commercial travellers should be treated in the same manner. "To ask .for this concession," declared Mi- Wanehop (Christchurch), "probably would mean that hotelkeepers eventually would charge commercials the same rates as oasuals." Mr W. A. Frentis (Auckland): To ask for more will mean that we will get less in the future. "Don't stretch it," advised the Dominion president (Mr A. Thompson, of Auckland). Mr W. F. Herrich (general secretary, Auckland): If you do the time will come when you will have to pay ordinary rates "Travellers bring hotel-keepers a good deal of business that they would not get in the ordinary course of events." replied Mr James.- He was prevailed upon to amend his motion, however, to read that "certificated nouses should be communicated with as to the advisability of not extending commercial travellers' co/icessions to all and sundry."