SELLING FAST.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 398, 3 April 1937, Page 7

SELLING FAST.

CORONATION SEATS., Up to Fifty Guineas. ,(lty Air Mail). LondJii, March 17. It is now estimated that the total value of seats along the Coronation route which have been, or will be, cold l.) the public will be £1,500,000 In addition, the Go .'eminent seats, allocated to special bodies and organisations, will bring in about £75.000 —half their net cost. The price of individual seats re. mains fairly steady. There are still a fev 1 in odd corn rs r.t from six to eight guineas each, but the bulk o' the seats still available cost from 10 to 20 guineas. For the more favoured position people are paying 25 .o 30 guineas, and a few seats have teen sold at 50 guineas, which is about tie top price in this country, although numbers of seats have be n resold r.b'oad. The seats for which 50 guineas have been paid are in the front row of the Abbey stand. Others ov rlook | the entrance to the A they, where / the Roy 1 procession will arrive. “We are selling between £6OOO and £7090 worth of Coionation seat: a Week,” said the head of London’: largest agency, “ind «e have been doing business ai. about hat figure every week since Christmas. There is no sign yet of the damind lessening or of the price dropping." “Coronation Vultures.” “Room overlook ng the Coronation procession route t< be let for th- day at a price that works out at £52 an hour. . . “Flat to let for » mont.i at £5l a '.day. . . " “Bed and breakfast for 30/- a night at a small hotel where the normal charge is 8/6 a night. . . These were among the pricer brought to light b i a London news paper’s invitation to readers to send in stories of Coronation profiteering which had come within th sir expert ence. . , Many r aders’v'rote angrily about the activities of the Coronation vultures. To Beat Profiteers. i To stop pi ofiteerii'g in Coronation i accommodation 100 men were handed a secret price list two days later. They were inspectors attached to he Coronation accommodation com mittee, which was dealing- with thousands of applications for “rooms.” With applications pouring in ft tm all over the world, at 1 ast 50.000 more rooms Vare si ill required when this action was take n. Mr Hugh Wontner, secretary of the committee, nai-J the profited, mg must be wiped out. The inspectois’ secret price-list scale was divided into five sections and tub-divided into further sections, according to comfort of rooms, ac cessibility to the Coronation route, distance from Central London and other facilities. Only the committee and the inspectors were in possession of the approved price list.