MANY VISITORS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1935, Page 13

MANY VISITORS

GOOD FOR TOWN BUSINESS

(From "The Post's" Special Reporter.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. The visit to. Palmerston North of delegates from many parts of the Dominion to attend the National Dairy Conference provides an • index of the value to a city of an influx of visitors. It is estimated that 350 delegates are present, by far the greater proportion of whom are from districts outside Palmerston North. This means that well over 300 men have had to find accommodation, apart from the usual quota of travellers, and the result has been that during the past two nights there have been few rooms available in the hotels. . Indeed* a party of three adults who arrived by car from Wellington last night, en route to Napier, and required two rooms, had some difficulty in obtaining accommodation. One hotel they went to was full, and the proprietor informed ■ them that it was years since, there had been so many people requiring rooms.

:V Extra' guests at 'tfye hotels mean a greater .'. consumption y of food, and tradespeople must have benefited accordingly • Tobacconists and. other shopkeepers have also benefited from the presence of so many visitors, and more money must have-found its way to garages and petrol stations, for, in spite of the economic conditions of the past four or five years, the farming community collectively is a large owner of motor-cars. Many of the delegates to the Dairy Conference have their cars with them, and the street outside the conference hall has been lined with cars during both days.