PAYING GUESTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16812, 2 June 1926, Page 5

PAYING GUESTS.

HOSTEL REGULATIONS. BRINGING IN SMALLER HOUSES. DEPUTATION TO PREAIIER. A suggestion that (he smaller hoarding-houses of the town should he brought under Hie same regulations ns lliose accommodation houses which came under (lie Arbitration Court award was put before the Prime Minister yesterday by a deputation from the local Private Hotel and Res-taurant-keepers’ Association. Airs Elvcy (secretary !o the Association) said their aim was to try to have all boarding-houses and private hotels, no matter how many they accommodated, on the same footing. At present the taxation of private hotels was inequitable, and the Association was anxious lhat all places which kept hoarders should be treated alike. Air C. Lafferly said there were quite a number of small hoarding-houses which were not governed by any regulations, which worked their staffs all hours of the day and paid them whatever wages they wished. Houses which accommodated more than 20 boarders came under the Arbitration Court.award, as to hours, wages, conditions of employment aud inspection. This placed the bigger houses at a distinct disadvantage. The Prime Minister: What do you call a small boarding-house—one which takes in three or four paying guests ? Air Lafferty: I do. We don’t want you to balance up all our grievances, but we do think that the present position is unfair to us.

Air Coates said the Labour Alinister had replied to the representations of the Association that the matter was one for the Court of Arbitration to deal with.

Air Lafferly also mentioned the changes in the railway service from Waikato, and said that Hamilton had suffered largely as a result of the change. He considered that too many trains were running from Hamilton to the city, the result being that the business was being taken from the district to Auckland, while the local hoardinghouses were feeling the effect keenly.

The Prime Alinister said lie would take up the matter of.the boardinghouses and private hotels with the Alinister of Labour. He reminded Mr LafTerty that the railway changes partly came about through representations from the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.