EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4594, 29 August 1923, Page 2

EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

ACCOMMODATION IN LONDON. FINDING ROOM FOR VISITORS. Hotel and boardinghouse accommodation for overseas and provincial visitors to London next year is engaging ,the attention of the British Empire Exhibition authorities. The Exhibition officials are in negotiation with the Incorporated Association of Hotels and Restaurants and the Residential Hotelkeepers’ and Caterers’ Association. With the help of these two bodies and others. interested in providing temporary accommodation for the millions of visitors who will undoubtedly be arriving in London next summer, a committee is to be set up immediately. “One of the first; duties of such a committee will be to compile an official list of hotels,, restaurants, boardinghouses, and private houses at which visitors may obtain good accommodation and service ,at a reasonable and approved' scale of charges. Only sudh boardinghouses and hotels a,s are prepared to adhere to their usual scale of charges for the summer season will be included in this list. It is proposed to collate and index a list of available accommodation for visitors within a 10 u miles radius of the' West End, and-in conjunction with the transport authorities to see that travel facilities are available until after midnight. All Middlesex and parts of Bucks* Herts, and Surrey will be included,, and as it has been suggested that many )f the industrial towns in the North shall arrange to spend their ‘wakes’ or holiday weeks ini London, instead of at, Blackpool or Douglas, it may be necessary to provide special holiday camps or hostels on the outskirts of London. . All these questions will be fully considered and dealt with by the committee appointed for the purpose. Of course, it will be wise for visitors to make early arrangements. London will be ‘full’ all through the summer; —no doubt fuller than it; has ever been,, but with the co ppeiation of organisations of such integrity those already mentioned there need be no fear of inefficiency or unduly high tariffs.”