PROPOSED REST HOUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 18

PROPOSED REST HOUSE.

FOR WOMEN IN NEWMARKET. . _-\ COUNCIL i.EFER MATTER TO _= COMMITTEE. == With the idea of assisting and making =■ it easier for the women folk to shop and == do business without being hampered br == children, Councillor T. >'. Sampson, at 5= the meeting of the Newmarket Borough = Council last night moved the following _—\ motion: "That, in the opinion of the == council, the time has arrived wiien a rest = room for ladies should be established in = the borough." _=■ Speaking in si pport of -is motion, _= Councillor Sampson stated that .cv.- = ' market as a business centre had grown == enormously in the last iV • years. In = that respect, it was not difficult to under- = stand that the women were making their s=; own district the buying centre for house- j=j= hold and other goods. They should do == what they could to.provide every facility = for them while they we c shopping, and = as it was the fact that there was no = such provision, much comment had been =^- aroused. The proposal he would bring === forward, if adopted by the council, would == necessitate the provision of a room for = the convenience of the visitors, and = attached to that would be a living room == for an attendant. The cost of furnishing == the rest house he estimated a.. £100. He = would suggest that it be opened from =— Monday to Thursday of each week from 5g 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 == p.m.; on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2.30 = p.m., and that it be closed on Sundays. ' __E •-That would make a total of 37J hours 55 per week, and the estimated cost for that === would be 1/5 per hour. He considered i== that the matter demanded the careful : consideration of the council, and it was ■ = one which directly concerned the iate- \~~ payers. j _== The general opinion of the councillors I = was that fke principle could not be \_=_ affirmed. gg The matter was eventually referred to ! =— the Legal and Finance Committee to as make inquiries and report back before == the end of the financial year. ~=