CATERING FOR TOURISTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 4

CATERING FOR TOURISTS

yiesB Associatioaj

Supplying Liquor Requirements

(Bs TeiogiupU

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The granting of licences W sefi liquor to tourist resorts in no-licence areas is to be urged upon by the Government by the South Island Travel Association. The question was introduced at the annual meeting of the association last evening by Mr. E. C- Lawrence, of the Pelorous Sound tourist bureau. It was ugeiess trying to get tourists from overseas, unless they were to be provided with the facilitieg to which they were accnstomed, said Mr. Lawrence, it was gssential that all the facilities that were available abroad should exist in New Zealand resorts, as otherwise the efforts of the association would not i be wholly successful. Tle suggested that temporary relief for this year only should be granted until the whole prob- j lem could be dealt with, Mr. J. Manson, Hanmer Sprmgs, ! said that in private hotels at large re- 1 sqrts the manager had no control over i the liquor consumed on the premiseg. j It was not the overseas tourists who I brought it in but the locaj person, The : tourist was one who went to the manager and asked where he could get it at his hostel said Mr. Manson. Revenue of over £40 a year was obtained : from the sale of empty bottles which people left in the backyard. The motion was carried unanimously.