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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 5

“Yes, but what about accommodation?” That seems to be the burden of the song of pessimism that _ keeps some people away from Dunedin and the Exhibition. Mr. Gladstone Hill, publicity director of the Australian Silver Band, told an “Otago Daily Times” reporter that from Auckland to Dunedin he had heard on all sides, in the Press and privately, that accommodation in Dunedin was hard to get and that the hotels had raised their tariffs to such an extent that people would not run the risk of failing to secure lodgings, or having to take high price hotels. In his opinion this was a very big factor against many people coming to see the Exhibition, especially in connection with the forthcoming band contest. To prove that this state of affairs was incorrect, at feast as far as available accommodation was concerned, Mr. Hill said he put an advertisement in a Dunedin paper asking for accommodation for a week for eleven members of the Australian Silver Band, and since then lie had received by telephone and letters offers to take up to 200 men for from 30s. to 355. per week! He had been told in some places be had visited that some people had almost refurnished _ their licnics and had so far not received a single boarder.

La Marguerite, once famous as a eross-Channel steamer, and later for her war service, is in the hands of the shipbrenkcr... The first troops she carried across the Channel, in March, l‘>|s, were the fifn C ity of London Rifles, and this regiment now possesses, b. v wav of souvenir, the ship’s be’} of fm s historic) steamer.