HOTEL SERVICE
Sir, —Last Monday, April 2, I had the misfortune to crush my hand to the wrist between the rollers of an electric washing machine. I was taken to Waikari, to the nearest doctor (six miles from where I was staying). He dressed it temporarily and I had to come home to Christchurch and go to the Public Hospital. I had two hours wait at the Waikari Hotel for the bus home. Owing to shock, loss of blood, etc., I was practically all in. I asked if I might nave a cup of hot tea, as I felt I would need it for the other two hours’ journey, but I was refused. The reason, "no staff.” In those circumstances could I, hgd I been able, have demanded tea. of is a botel’/iot obliged to minister to the travelling public?—Yours, etc., E. LINTON. April 9, 1951. [When this letter was referred to the oroprietor of the hotel in Waikari on the bus route he said that he did not remember the incident and that tea was made just before 4 p.m. every afternoon for bus passengers.]
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26396, 14 April 1951, Page 3
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