EXCESSIVE TARIFF CHARGED
TIMARU HOTEL FINED (New Zealand Press Association) TIMARU, June 3. Hotels in this grading, which were fulfilling their obligations 'o the travelling public, could not escape losing heavily financially on the house side of the increased hotel ebsts and wages, counsel for the defendant told the Court in Timaru this morning, when the Price Tribunal laid nine charges against the Empire Hotel (Timaru), Ltd., of charging _ excessive tariff. The hotel, graded three star plus,
was said to have charged 35s a day at Christmas instead of 30s as fixed by the price order. On January 8 the tariff for three star plus hotels had been raised from 30s to 32s 6d and four star to 35s a day. The Empire Hotel, it was stated for the Price Tribunal, had had its grading raised to four star in mid-January, but the manager had anticipated the rise in the price order and also the hotel’s rise in grading. Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., fined the defendant company £5 on each of the first three charges, and convicted and ordered the company to pay costs on the other six.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27367, 4 June 1954, Page 8
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