KING COUNTRY HOTELS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6567, 17 September 1948, Page 4

KING COUNTRY HOTELS

PROVISION OF PROPER ACCOMMODATION

MOVE TO GET LICENSES

Support of the Otorohanga Chamber of Commerce’s view that any licenses granted in the King Country should be linked up with the obligation to provide proper accommodation was forthcoming from the Te Kuiti Chamber of Commerce at its last meeting. The Otorohanga Chamber is communicating with other bodies in the King Country on this matter prepara-’ tory to bringing the matter to the notice of the Government. Mr C. S. Brook commented that while the form any licenses that might be granted in the King Country might take, could only be hazarded, a trust was highly probable. In Invercargill, although the first pre-occupation had been the provision of drinking facilities, the Trust was now giving attention to hotel accommodation, In his opinion the most important need for Te Kuiti, and probably other King Country towns, was the building of a modern hotel. Mr O’Halloran said the tion problem was desperate in T<r Kuiti to-day. When the question of municipal control of licenses was tentatively mentioned, Mr B. L. Desgranges remarked that Renwark, a small country town on the Murray River in Australia, possessed in its municipallycontrolled hotel one of the, best appointed and conducted hotels of its size in Australia, and it had benefited the town greatly.