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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17217, 7 December 1923, Page 1

In connection with the preparations for the Exhibition to open here next. Saturday week, says the Hokitika w Guardian,’’ it is very satisfactory to learn that the organisation in respect to the accommodation question is advanced. Already a number of people have been booked up, and there are applications coming in daily. The accommodation bureau is providing about 500 extra beds on top of the preparations made -by the hotels and private residents. A large number of visitors will be here staying with friends, and these are being accommodated outside the activities of the bureau. So that on the whole there will be a. large amount of extra accommodation. a.nd much more than was intended originally had the hostel proposition lv’en gone on with. The arrangements now made seem to be preferable to the hostel proposal, and certainly the ultimate results -will be better all round. The success of the Exhibition-—it has been regarded always—will be governed by the amount of accommodation available and with the extension made in that direction by the authorities, it is hoped, no doubt, that matters will now be in a way to command the success which the big project should offer under effective direction and organisation.