EMPHATIC DEMAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1939, Page 6

EMPHATIC DEMAL

CHARGES FOR BOARD IN WELLINGTON NO RUSE IN ANTICIPATION OF EXHIBITION. MENTION OF INCREASING COSTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A meeting of the Wellington Private Hotelkeepers’ Industrial Union of Employers yesterday resolved: “That, in regard to statements published to the effect that Wellington private hotel - keepers and boarding-house proprietors are greatly increasing their tariffs and dispensing with their permanent or regular boarders in view of the approaching New Zealand Centennial Exhibition period, the association desires to give those statements an em phatic denial, as such is decidedly not the position.” A report supplied to the Press says that, although high wages and rising costs of foodstuffs are giving deep concern and may necessitate a relevant advance, no further increases in charges are at the moment seriously contemplated. On the other hand it is the desire of the association to assist the Exhibition authorities in every possible way to provide adequate and reasonable accommodation for visitors to Wellington during the Exhibition period. ’