CUP READING
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —After reading cups for three years in a small business it came as a surprise to have one day’s notice to cease. It seems unfair that we should have to stop because a police matron did not approve of it in Auckland. We quite understand that the future cannot be foreseen, and we Christchurch people have a notice in our rooms to say that patrons are not asked to believe what we say will come true. When asked whether anything she had been told had come true the matron said “No”; but they are not asked to believe it. as it is just for amusement. Cup reading was mentioned in Parliament some years ago and it was thought too trifling a matter to* consider. Most small proprietors depend entirely on their tea-rooms for a living, whereas big firms sell everything there is to be sold. Small business people
should put their thoughts into action and act now.—Yours, etc., FAIR PLAY. June 14, 1936. [A police official stated, when this letter was shown to ’him, that cupreading in a tea room was a definite breach of the law.]
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21811, 17 June 1936, Page 7
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