HOTEL ACCOMMODATION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 14, 1 February 1937, Page 8

HOTEL ACCOMMODATION

Napier Shortage at Holidays In view of the acute shortage of hotel accomodation experienced by visitors to Napier in the Christmas and New Year holidays, a Napier resident suggested to-day that some preparation should be made for a sixnilarly large influx of visitors during the Easter holidays. He suggested that some responsible body should make a foster of all places at which visitors would be likely to obtam accommodation, and that the list should be revised regularly so that visitors could obtain any accomodation offerin^ without a systematic seareh of the town. , Between Christmas vand New Year's Day every public and private hotel in Napier was filled, the ar'ea at the Napier motor cainp was taxed to the utmost, and parties of visitors were eompelled to ask at private houses for shelter for the night. The. visiting cricket players from Manawatu and Palmerston North, engaged in the junior cricket week matches at McLean Park, Napier, were installed at Greenmeadows, and those who came later were hard put to it to find accommodation for a single night. "The same position will apply at Easter time," said the gentleman in question, "and I consider that if a roster were prepared of all places offering accommodation, that many of the visitors will be able to find lodgings. It is in the interests of Napier to \do this."