HOTEL TARIFFS
POSITION IN WELLINGTON POSSIBILITY OF INCREASE f * [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday Although hotel tariffs for board and residence have not been increased in Wellington as in Auckland because of the new hotel workers' award, a leading hotel proprietor stated to-day that increases must be made when the 40-hour week for hotel workers was introduced. He said tariffs had previously been increased by 10 per cent, but that increase w s as from the depression level, and there was actually no increase over normal times. The proprietor added that costs had gone up on all sides and hotel-keepers could not continue on present tariffs. Apart from increased wages the extra amount that had to be paid for commodities and the big increase in laundry charges had combined to destroy the safe operating margin. The increases reported from Auckland are for daily tariff rates, and vary from 5 to 7} per cent. The award that increased wages for hotel workers came into operation on December 5.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23227, 22 December 1938, Page 12
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