US. TOURISTS DON’T LIKE BEDS IN N.Z. HOTELS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3288, 6 March 1926, Page 4

US. TOURISTS DON’T LIKE BEDS IN N.Z. HOTELS

“New Zealand hotels are—now, what shall I say—they’re not —well, X can’t sleep In the beds, anyway.” "Go on, what do you expect? You’re not back home now, you know. New Zealand’s only got a little over a million of a population, and, considering that, her hotels are not so bad.” That’s a portion of a dialogue which took place between one of the American tourists, who arrived in Christchurch recently, and his wife, when they were asked how they were finding things in the Dominion. Of course, the lady had to have the last word, and she just said "apple sauce.’’ “I’m not complaining about your country,” she said. “I believ e that the man who labelled it ‘God’s own’ : —and I’m told that someone did—was not far out. But the hotels, they’re a disappointment. They’re so very different from what we are jused to in the States. Why don’t I you build some decent skyscrapers ?” \ I "Simply because they’ve not got the tourist traffic here to justify the | outlay,” said the young woman's ! husband, who had a business head. I “But look, just a minute,” replied the lady, with the intensely satisfied air of one who is about to score a point. "If there were decent hotels out here, at which poo- | pie might stay, they’d get more tourists.” “Well—er—yes; but are you sure you’re not confusing cause with effect?” rejoined the husband. "Certain of it,’’ said the lady. “Well, that’s that!” said the husband, resignedly. “I guess that’s one to me,” said ; th e young woman—and there were others in the party who agreed that it was.