MISCELLANEOUS CLIPPINGS

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 4, 1 May 1948, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CLIPPINGS

PLAIN SPEAKING Hotelkeepers who do not carry out their obligations to provide meals and accommodation for the travelling public received a straight warning from Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M., at a quarterly meeting of the Hauraki Licensing Commitie*- lie said their licences w-ould not he renewed at the annual meeting. He was w-ell aware that Hauraki was not the only district where the position occurred. It obtained all over the Dominion and a start should be made in an endeavour to remedy it. There w-ere hotelkeeper6 in Thames and elsewhere wdio deliberately refrained from their statutory obligation. The excuses put forward were stereotvped and threadbare and would no longer suffice. One favourite excuse was that they could not obtain staff. His replv was that they did not w-ant to obtain staff; thev had no difficulty in obtaining staff for bars. There was the worn excuse for refusing accommodation. “Full up, I’m sorry.” From time to time such statements had been checked and found to be deliberat.-.v untrue. Recently be had the experience of being refused accommodation at a Thames hotel and he was calmlv told the hotel did not cater for boarders because of staff difficulties. A person who deliberately set out not to give accommodation w-as not a fit and nrnner person to bold a hotel licence. Unless licensees set about rectifying their shortcomings be would refuse to renew* their annual licences in Tune. —“New- Zealand Herald."