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HELICOPTER I . j As booking Agents for AIRWORK N.Z. LTD., Harewood Airport who will be operating their own machine, we can arrange your Helicopter spraying this season. GORSE \ Usln s “pkture "Weedone" crop ) Products Also Fence and supply dropping. Dusting, etc. PYNE, GOULD, GUINNESS Limited "WEEDONE Distributors," Canterbury and Marlborough.

- s In I I™i 'fl ■ ill’I" Si. Sfi mhi wMh bw lii mi K ■vfii B HOTEL HERITAGE Number 22 / I J f 1. 1 J*7 th' fighting forces and having to cope with the inevit- ■ 1 ■ ■■ ■- ■' ■■■ ■■ ■ . - Z able shortages and restrictions of war-time, the hotels, SZ / nevertheless, managed to maintain a steady standard of x good service and ready hospitality. Rebuilding that had EW ZEALAND is rightly proud In New Zealand war-time conditions produced not a taken place during the two previous decades, particularly 5k of its record in the Second world slackening but an intensification of pressure on hotel the erection of some large hotels, helped significantly to 4A War. The high effectiveness of accommodation. Like other sections of the economy “s® the strain. This served to emphasise how New the fighting forces was supple- the hotels had a special job to do. The decline in Zealand would have benefited from much greater adW mented by a thorough mobilisa- ordinary travelling for holidays or business was more vances that would have been made had the industry tion of the Home Front economy. than balanced by the special needs for accommodation teen free to develop normally from the beginning of In relation to the size of its pop- that arose through mobilisation of the armed forces, the century. f o ulation the Dominion’s total war Parents visiting sons in camp, waiting to see contingents effort was greater than any other. off at embarkation ports, people moving from one place More New Zealanders were engaged on active service to another for all sorts of reasons connected with the overseas than in the First World War. But the toll of war effort. In the later years of the war there was death was lower. Partly this was due to the different additional need. Hotels provided for travelling American IjjfejfaßM gl. conditions, of fighting. But there was also a big saving servicemen of the United States Pacific forces, based on t in life and health through better military organisation. New Zealand, and for our own returned servicemen and Lessons learned by sad experience in the First World women, enjoying a well-earned holiday rest in their War were applied in the Second. Epidemic outbreaks own country. O were prevented and loss from disease kept to a minimum This was part of the particular share of the ® because of a more sensible and enlightened understand- challenge being met by the country as a whole. And the ing of the health needs of war-time army camp life. response was a creditable one. Making do with temper- W > • . . 8 °f the mfautry to rise to p g the occasion conceals from a large ft Drink with discrimination .. . ■ section of the public the reality of the 3 S “W’ c “‘ ftes t ' iere are in the way of w O maintaining existing standards. The M 0 ur B e t 0 constant improvement is innate drink » in the hotel industry and the public is H » losing more than it knows through re- ® g strictive controls and taws which curtail g ... good wholesome beer on all occasions B many of the services hotelkeepers would g A like to offer their guests. g The Road Code sayas "Be considerate to Pedestrians’*

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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28370, 31 August 1957, Page 6

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Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28370, 31 August 1957, Page 6

Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28370, 31 August 1957, Page 6