TOURIST HOTELS FOR N.Z.

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28742, 13 November 1958, Page 14

TOURIST HOTELS FOR N.Z.

“Five Needed 01 Top Standard" (New Zealand Press Association) WHANGAREI. November 12. Five new tourist hotels of top standard were needed in New Zealand. Mr J A. Hailey, a former mayor of Nelson and a New Zealand Travel and Holidays Association executive, told the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce. The first of these hotels should be in Auckland, the second in Northland, the third in Wellington. the fourth in Christchurch, and ‘the fifth I don’t know where.” Mr Harley added. The Auckland hotel should be a world-class establishment, with somewhere around 400 beds. Mr Harley said that an eminent international organiser of tourist travel, particularly from the United States, had told him that no New Zealand hotel was of the required standard for visi-, tors. Nor did the New Zealand Government show inclination cither to construct such a hotel or to encourage private enterprise to build one. 0 Mr Harley said he had also been told by the same travel authority: "The Pacific is to be the. tourist Mecca of the future, and we arc going to come to New Zealand, but wc are going to have nothing to do with your cranky liquor laws—nor with your cranky laws that say your money must stay lin New Zealand.”