CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 260, 13 April 1915, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

ACCOMMODATION IN NEW PLYMOUTH. To the Editor. Sir,—Thanks for your leading article in Friday's News. What you say concerning the need of more ample accommodation for visitors to our town is borne out by the experience for years past of people from outside who desired to spend their holiday here, and have found it impossible to obtain such quarters as thoy have desired. Of course we all know that at Christmas, Easter, and race times there is apt to be a lack of room everywhere, and the caterer for the travelling public can hardly be expected to provide bedrooms which will stand empty the rest of the year, but I think that accommodation for guests in this town might very well be increased to the extent of say one-third without proving at all in excess of the requirements of tho travelling public. May I venture to join issue with your statement that "with tho excoption of one or two, the holjils make no pretence to cater for boarders"'! 1 There are at'least five licensed houses in New Plymouth where good beds and excellent meals are always available to the extent of their resources, and it is not quite fair to give the impression to outside readers that not more than the White Hart and Criterion—offer accommodation for guests. There is certainly a capital opening in New Plymouth for a really good seaside hotel, licensed or unlicensed, without unnecessary frills, and run at a moderate tariff. The Coffee Palace here has a eolonial reputation, and th* almost nightly reply to would-by boarders, "Sorry, we're full up" is the best testimonial to a well-conducted homely place."—l am, etc., V. V. CORKILL.