BOARDINGHOUSE VERSUS HOTEL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3212, 11 June 1909, Page 3

BOARDINGHOUSE VERSUS HOTEL.

The question of which provides the best accommodation to travellers - au hotel or a boardhighouse—-was a subject for some discussion at the Manukau Licensing Committee's meeting on Monday last A witness stated that he had travelled over most of the Dominion, and he was convinced that travellers did not get nearly as much attention in hoardinghouses as in hotds. especially in country towns. He had once attempted to sleep in a country boardinghouse, and had been compelled to finish mirier the sky. Police inspection, and the fear of licensing committees, the witness added, forced hotel keepers to provide good accommodation. "Would not the placing of boardinghouses under similar police investigation get over the difficulty?" asked a member of the Committee. "That woull be almost impossible," replied Mr F. Earl, "since the question of defining what is and what is not a boardinghous-3, would be almost an impossibility," Boardinghouses in country districts, he added, were ghastly failures as far as his experiences went, "What about the boardinghouses at Rotorua?" asked Mr Northcroft, S.M. "They are altogether different," replied counsel, "as they cater for a class of tourists. In the country the hotels must be prepared to put on good meals at all hours, at an exceedingly moderate tariff. If a drover came along and demanded at Rotorua what he expects at the country hotel, the boardinghousekecper wouldn't kr.ow what to do. He would set the dogs on him." Mr Northcroft said there were good boardinghouses it Taumarunui —another country town. Mr Earl repileci tnat the last time he stopped at Taumarunui, the bedroom he slept in contained 17 other inmates.