RESTAURANT MEALS
PENNY RISE IN PRICE WELLINGTON DECISION INCREASED COSTS AND WAGES [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday City workers and business people who take their meals in Wellington tearooms and restaurants will be obliged after Monday to pay a penny more for morning tea, afternoon tea, lunch or dinner than at present. This increase in tlio price of meals was announced to-day by city restaurateurs. At a meeting of the Wellington Tearooms. Restaurant and Refreshment Rooms Proprietors' Association held recently it was decided to impose a surcharge of one penny on meals for the purpose of meeting the increased cost of foodstuffs and higher wages and working costs brought about by the recent tearooms and restaurant employees' award.
There is no concerted move among Auckland restaurateurs to increase the price of meals, but Mr. M. P. Murray, president of the Auckland Restaurant Proprietors' Association, said last night that because of higher costs, higher charges for meals were more than warranted. He added that Wellington patrons paid on an average threepence more than Aucklanders for similar meals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23139, 10 September 1938, Page 12
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