BARMAIDS IN CLUBS
Union Wants Act Amended
(New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, March 3. Drinking and barmaids were not a suitable combination in New Zealand, said the national secretary of the Hotel Workers’ Union, Mr F. G. Young, at the union’s conference at New Plymouth tonight. The union would ask for legislation to make chartered clubs hiring female bar workers conform to the Licensing Act, he said. An anomaly in the law allows the clubs to employ barmaids while preventing hotels from doing so. “This anomaly could lead to abuse of the law,” said Mr Young. He cited a chartered club at Dunedin which employed women to serve liquor to club members. Australian barmaids had been a success, but conditions in New Zealand were rather different. Probably most New Zealanders were against any move to introduce barmaids, he said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28835, 4 March 1959, Page 12
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