Exhibition Accommodation

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 171, 22 July 1939, Page 6

Exhibition Accommodation

RISE IN TARIFF DENIED Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 21. A meeting of the Wellington Private Hotel keepers ’ Industrial Union of Employers yesterday resolved that, in regard to statements published to the effect that Wellington private hotelkeepers and boarding house proprietors are greatly increasing their tariffs and dispensing with their permanent or regular boards iu view of the approaching New Zealand Centennial Exhibition period, tho association desires to give those statements an emphatic denial as such was decidedly not the position.

A report supplied to the press says that although high wages and rising costs of foodstuffs are giving deep concern, and may necessitate a relevant advance, no further increases in charges are at the moment seriously contemplated. On the other hand it was the desire of the association to; assist the exhibition authorities in every possible way to provide adequate 1 and reifeonable accommodation for visitors to Wellington during the exhibition .period.