HOTELKEEPERS AND THE PUBLIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 June 1919, Page 4

HOTELKEEPERS AND THE PUBLIC.

j CHUISTCHURCH, June^S. I At the meeting of the Licensing Com- • mittee to-day, the chairman stated that I he had visited many hotels in Christchurch, and in some "the accommodation was so bad that he was considering the question of condemning certain premises. Complaints had been made to the committee of travellers being refusedmeals because they asked for them affcejp schedule time. The chairman pointed i out that licensees were also innkeepers, and were bound to supply meals at any time of the day or night, and must also provide accommodation for travellers j as long as it was available. Penalties for non-compliance with the law were very heavy, i