Accommodating Crowds for Coronation
200,000 VISITORS EXPECTED LONDON, Feb. 10 “Book early" is the slogan which coronation visitors should obey. This becomes increasingly evident every day. The Government, faced with a shortage of hotel and boarding-house accommodating, will support the early establishment of a national bureau designed to distribute the guests. Scores of hotels are full. One mediocre flat in Oxford street on the route of tho procession has been sold for £250 for Coronation week. The bureau will compile a census of every bedroom and flat available. More than 200,000 guests are expected from abroad, including 20,000 from Australia. As visitors will probably spend, on an average, 150 while in Britain, the total expenditure by them should bo at least £15,000,000.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 5
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