£125 A WEEK I
♦ NEW ZEALAND HOTEL CHARGES DAMAGING STATEMENT “We live and learn,” was the remark of a member at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce Council last evening, when a paragraph from an English journal was quoted in which it was stated that hotel charges in New Zealand ranged from “£35 a week in small towns up to as much as £125 in Christchurch.” The paragraph, which appeared in the May number of the “Sartorial Gazette,” was as follows: —
“Hotel accommodation is scarce and dear in New Zealand. Charges range from £35 per week in small towns up to as much as £125 per week in Christchurch. House rents are exorbitant everywhere.”
The secretary (Mr. H. S. Fairchild) said he had written to the Government publicity officer pointing out that such a damaging statement appearing in a well-known London trade publication must tend to depreciate good results from the publicity efforts that the Dominion had been making in the Old Country in order to encourage tourist traffic. A voice: But isn’t this a humorous paper?' (Laughter.) The secretary: Oh, dear, no. It takes .itself very seriously. The chairman (Mr. D. J.'McGowan) : 35/- to 125/- would be nearer the mark.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 218, 11 June 1930, Page 10
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