ACCOMMODATION HOUSE AT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25329, 31 October 1947, Page 5

ACCOMMODATION HOUSE AT

HANMER

Sir,—The president of the Hanmer Progress League states that the Tourist Department is prepared to help a married man (serviceman) with a grown-up family to get a rehabilitation loan to build an accommoaation house at Hanmer Springs. The Health Department is using a- large accommodation house at Hanmer (“Glenalvon”) as sleeping quarters for female staff. The Health Department should accommodate its staff on its own property. “ I am told the military hospital is closed for want of staff. The building is on the grounds where the first Government accommodation house used to be—the old Spa; and I am told it is vacant now. Grownup families will not solve the staff problem nor the 40-hour week. The Tourist Department when it books a guest takes 10 per cent, commission. What for? No wonder it is deeply interested.—Yours, etc., AXES TO GRIND. Hanmer Springs, October 22, 1947. [Accommodation at Hanmer Springs had been reduced to about half of what it was 10 to 15 years ago, and thb Tourist Department suggested that there was an opening for returnedservicemen to open small accommodation houses or hostels at Hanmer, said the district manager of the Tourist and Publicity Department at Christchurch (Mr W. A. Pickford) when he was asked to comment on this letter.]