WAITOMO CAVES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5077, 19 January 1927, Page 3

WAITOMO CAVES.

ADVERSE COMMENT. MATTER OF ACCOMMODATION. “They should call it ‘Wait-a-month’ not ‘Wait-a-mo,’ ” declaired an Australian .businessman now touring New Zealand when speaking to a reporter of his visit to the Waitomo Caves. The accommodation was so uncomfortable that he. wired to the agency which had arranged his tour that if it was all going to be like this h«i would not bother to see the rest of New Zealand. The agency sent a soothing reply and, after going on to New Plymouth, staying at one of the leading hotels there, and seeing some of the sights of North Taranaki, the Australian came to the conclusion that after all his money and his time were not being ill-spent in see’ng New Zealand. It should be explained that the accommodation at Waitomo which caused the dissatisfaction is of a temporary nature, fnd is being used only while the Government is thinking about enlarging the hostel, which 'for some years has been much too small to meet the needs of the tourist traffic. The complaint of the Australian was that he. had not been told what to expect, and, in any case, was paying for first-class accommodation for his himself. He said that what they were given proved to be very second-class ; in fact, he called it a stable.