HOTEL TARIFFS
"INCREASE MUST BE MADE"
Although action has not yet been taken in Wellington as in Auckland where it is reported that hotel tariffs for board and residence have been increased because of the new hotelworkers' award, a prominent hotel proprietor stated today that increases must be made.
When the 40 r hour week for hotel workers was introduced, he said, tariffs had been increased by 10 per cent, but that increase was from the depression level and there was actually no increase over normal times. Costs had gone up on all sides and the hotelkeepers could not continue on present tariffs. Apart from increased _wages costs the extra that had to be paid for commodities and the big increase in laundry charges had combined to destroy a safe operating margin.
The increases reported from Auckland are for daily tariff rates and vary from sto 7£ per cent. The award that increased wages for hotel workers came into operation on December 5.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 149, 21 December 1938, Page 14
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