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PROSPERITY IN LONDON HOTELS NEARLY FULL (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The atmosphere of prosperity iu London was commented on by Mr. E. B. Myer* chairman of directors of the My'er Emporium, Melbourne, who is returning with his wife on the Mariposa.
It, was difficult to obtain hotel accommodation even now, he said, and already the hotels were booked out for tlie Coronation. London was benefiting) from the Mate of unrest in Europe, and there was almost a boom there. Paris was depressed. and the lack of gaiety in other Kuropean capitals was sending prosperous holiday-makers to England. Mr. Myer related an amusing aspect of the big stay-in strike in the Paris departmental stores lie said that the workers kept their bosses and customers out, but each morning they dressed the shop windows anew.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18087, 7 August 1936, Page 6
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