MORE HOTELS WANTED.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 947, 30 April 1908, Page 20

MORE HOTELS WANTED.

In view of the fact that a number of misguided people l are continually agitating for the reduction of the number of hotels in the Dominion, a’"so that licenses be taken away from the remaining ones, making their existance an impossibility, it is worth recording that, according to the “New Zealand Times” the invasion of Wellington by the militarv last week was a mere circumstance beside the rush into town of visitors from the countr” which has been in progress nearlv a week. The hotel bed has gone up to a premiumand no body but a guest of long standing gets anything but a “'shake-down” in most Wellington hotels just now. One popular hostelry has bedroom accommodation for a hundred and fifty people, but since Good Friday the management have exercised remarkable ingenuity in extending the sleeping facilities so as to she’ter over two hundred weary visitors, many of whom are only too glad of a “shakedown” in a passage. Single bedrooms accommodate two people, double bedrooms make dormitories, and there are visitors who show an anxiety to appropriate for a couch the upholstered seat is the lift. Wellington’s hotel accommodation is be-

ing rapidly extended on modern lines, and the indications are that the fine new buildings in course of erection are all urgently required.