Loss of Visitors
Because accommodation in cilv hotels is not available, Wanganui will lose the patronage of 500 or 600 visitors from Lower Hutt at Easter The organiser of the workers’ group travel scheme at Lower Hutt, Mr. B. A Brown, recently wrote to the Wanganui City Council asking if accommodation could be found for a parly of workers which hoped to visit the city at Easter. The town clerk, Mr C H. White, interviewed the proprietors of 10 city establishments and had to reply that accommodation could not be secured because of heavy early bookings. The Wanganui Collegiate' School’s annual gathering draws large numbers of visitors at Easter, and this year, in addition, there is to' be a regatta, and tennis and bowling tourneys.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21671, 24 March 1945, Page 4
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125Loss of Visitors Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21671, 24 March 1945, Page 4
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