INCREASE DEFERRED
Genera! Hotel Tariffs
Tourist Department Houses PA WELLINGTON, Dec. 15. The general increase in hotel tariffs approved by the Price Tribunal is not to operate in the case of Tourist Department hotels until the holiday period is over. This was announced by Mr Doidge, Minister in charge of Tourist and Health Resorts. The hotels include Chateau Tongariro, Waitomo, Lake House (Waikaremoana), Wairakei, the Hermitage, Te Anau, Franz Josef, Milford Sound and Cascade (Eglinton Valley). The charges approved by the Price Tribunal provide for increases of up*to 5s 6d a day. “ Throughout New Zealand,” said Mr Doidge, “there are families and parties of young people who planned their summer holiday months ago and booked accommodation before the new tariffs were approved by the Price Tribunal. To put the new scale of charges into operation now that we are on the eve of the holiday season would ensure for the department a considerable increase in revenue, but it would mean a great deal of disappointment for many people who plan carefully and save diligently for their annual vacation. For that reason it has been decided that the new Scale of charges shall not operate in Tourist Department hotels until March 1, 1950,” said the Minister.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27265, 16 December 1949, Page 8
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