HOTEL HOURS TO BE REDUCED

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23714, 12 August 1942, Page 2

HOTEL HOURS TO BE REDUCED

AUSTRALIAN DECISION (Received August 11, 7 p.m.) MELBOURNE. August 11,

The Australian State Premiers’ Conference nas decided to reduce by at least one hour a day hotel trading hours in the capital cities, and in such other towns as the states decide. The Prime Minister (Mr J. Curtin) announced that the Commonwealth would give the states the necessary authority for the imposition of drastic penalties on hotelkeepers who serve inebriated servicemen with liquor, and also to ban women from public bars. The “Prime Minister added that the proposal bv the Commonwealth that drinking in parks and public places should be made unlawful had been agreed to by the state premiers. A recommendation that mixed drinking in hotel lounges should be prohibited was not adopted by the con-

ference. Women in Army Headquarters At Headquarters, Southern Military District, many women clerical workers are now to be seen in Army uniform. They are engaged in all , kinds of clerical work and wear the walkingout uniform of skirt and coat cut on military lines. Members of headquarter? staff are well pleased with the appearance of the women in uniform. In the streets, although the public is now used to the appearance of members of the W.A.A.F. in their Air Force blue, people turn to look at members of the W.A.A.C. in their comparatively new khaki uniforms.