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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 278, 15 April 1911, Page 8

Stranse figures arc given bv a writer ia a current magazine, illustrative of the way in which small expenses and "tips" add to the cost of living in fashionable hotels in America. 'Some hotels, indeed, recover all their maintenance charges' from the unnecessary generosity of patioiis. Taking 011 cof the best-known as an example, the revenue it receives includes the peg-rent, amounting to about .•CIOOO annually, and the lavatory privilege, which brings in £(>00. The head porter pay, a year for his privii .he employs about twenty-Jive men, furnishes a messenger service, and has a monopoly of carrying the express business. The barber pays £2OOO a year for his privilege. The house valet pays about £GOO a year. Thus the hotel lias a yearly rtvenuc of nearly £(1000 from concessions; but the receipts of the concessionaires are far more than this sum, all merely the pocket-money of guests. CLiEcm-G baggage" THROUGH US IS NOT EXPENSIVE. Don't run away with the idea that to check your baggage is a luxury, it's not. All we charge is small fee for cartage at either end; the nctiml checking we iio free. And look at the benefit yoh get ; A'hur baggage collected, checked, and delivered by the time you arrive, without bother to yott at aH.-N.Z. Express Co Ltd.—Advt.