HOTELS BOOKED OUT
Plans to Help Visitors to Coronation AVOID PROFITEERING (Received 19, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON", Feb. 18. The Government has ordered the appointment of a Coronation accommodation committee, whieh is compiling a regi'ster of all available Coronation accommodation in London and Greator London. The object is to ensure a "squaxe deal" for visitors, especially a3 all hotel aceommodation is already booked, The committee has no legal powers to prevent profiteering, but its inspectors will examine and value the aceommodation. being offered ia private houses, Owners asking extortionate prices will be struck off the regiater. . The oommittee. will also endeavour to prevent room prices fising as the Coronation date approaches. The High Commissioners have beeu informed that the Coronation Committee would appreciate it if all .Domiuion visitors requiring aceommodation write by air mail or cable them at No. 11 Southampton Row. The committee stresses the necessity for immediate application, though the utmost help will be given Dominion visitors arriving in England without previously applying.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 5
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