EXHIBITION ACCOMMODATION. TO THE EDITOB. Sih,—The bookings for the Big- Exhibition exceed by far our most sanguine cxpeakfa tions. Notwithstanding the fact that wd have made arrangements whereby we will ba able to accommodate some IS extra guests, wo are practically booked up for the 1 - fin* five months. We now have ample roojn in our dining room to provide for 30 *xtrai guests. It-is our duty as citizens to provide first-class accommodation for oversea# 1 and! prominent visitors in our own country* We would like to hear from those who have idle bedrooms within easy distance of the Grand, as we .are prepared to make generor™ ]g. rangemepts for these selected paying who will have all meals at the hotel.—l an? etc., ■ i ' Grand Hotel. Abthto A. Pa^ise, (Published by Arrangement.) s'
A writer in the London Evening Newt says he has seen no fewer than 17 attempto to swim the Channel, therefore he ought io have some knowledge of the of the job. It is his opinion that the Channel is the greatest test of physical endurance to which a human being jcould be subjected. The writer says that Shorn who may think that the only thing aeoensary to swim the Channel is the aKiSbr to keep going for a certain nnmblr erf! eours do not know that a swirnmt#, in the course of the trip, may encounter fiany sudden variations of temperature betWeeU icy cold and lukewarm,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19615, 20 October 1925, Page 7
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