SOMEONE HAS TO PAY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 29 June 1916, Page 2

SOMEONE HAS TO PAY.

For the last few days wrathful guests at a city hotel have been wanting to know why they are charged sundry sixpences for cups of tea previously included in the ordinary tariff, says the " Sydney Daily Telegraph." Why, too, ! they should pay one shilling for a diminutive jug (usually called- a doll's jug) of cream, formerly served as a matter of course ; also why a tray sent to a bedroom, instead of costing the usual shilling, is now charged for at the rate of two shillings. To all these anxious inquiries the manager is said to have replied that complainers have to blame the C o'clock closing of hotels; the hotels must make up for the curtailed hours somehow, and the only way they can do that is by passing it on to the guests, Needless to say, the guests are fnrious, and threaten to pack up and leave, rather than put up with such charges.