BLACK BAN ON HOTELS
LITTLE EFFECT ON BAR TRADE (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 12. Bars in many Auckland city hotels owned by Dominion Breweries, Ltd., were as crowded at 5.30 pm. today as on any other Friday evening, in spite of the black ban imposed on them by the Hotel Workers’ union. A union official said today that bar takings were dropping by 50 per cent., and in some cases by 70 per cent.; but two hotel managers reported no decline, and one said his takings had increased. The union has no intention of holding a stop-work meeting in the near future, unless there is any serious development in the dispute, according to a spokesman. Barmen were serving customers without question, and unless they were asked, they did not volunteer the information that any hotel was black. There appeared to be no departure from the normal method of filling glasses, and one barman said he filled them absolutely to the top “when he remembered.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27065, 13 June 1953, Page 6
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