HOTEL BOOKINGS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22618, 5 January 1937, Page 10

HOTEL BOOKINGS

RUSH PERIOD PASSED FURTHER INFLUX EXPECTED RESERVATIONS FOR JANUARY The holiday rush for accommodation at the hotels and boarding houses in and around tho city is now practically over. The majority of visitors left Auckland at the week-end and hotel bookings eased considerably, leaving normal holiday reservations yesterday. For the remainder of the month, however, the seasonal arrivals will continue, and another lively period will be experienced by the main hotels in the latter half of the month. Several hundred visitors from various parts of Australia and New Zealand will reach Auckland next Monday and Tuesday, in connection with the 23rd annual congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. The leading hotels will then bo heavily taxed for the duration of this fixture, and hundreds of additional bookings have been received for tho following week, when the inaugural conference of the rtovnl Australasian College of Surgeons will be opened in Auckland.

For some days before and after January 2o there will bo a further heavy demand for hotel accommodation by the wool buyers now operating throughout New Zealand, on the occasion of the second wool sale in Auckland. Elsewhere, especially among motor campers, there are indications that the city will continue to be extensively visited as a holiday resort. Many bookings have been entered for sites at the Western Springs and Takapuna camping grounds, which should be well patronised right through Februarv as well.

Owing to most city workers being required to return to business yesterday, some accommodation is now available at the tourist centres, although Rotorua, Waitomo, Wairakei, National Park, Mount Maunganui and Tauranga

are still extremely popular resorts with late holidavmakers, mainly from the