Barmaids
Sir, —A section of the liquor interest is actively lobbying to have the law amended to permit the employmenit of barmaids in the hope that sex appeal will boost the bar takings. As the current industrial award provides for equal wages for male and female bar staff no saving can be expected in the wage bill, but it is advanced that the presence of barmaids will improve the moral atmosphere in the bars and be conducive to better and more elevated conversation. That hotel-keepers have not more fully availed themselves of the existing law which allows the employment of the wife, sisters, or daughters of the licensee as barmaids surprises me. Is it that such employment does not rate very high in the social register that females behind the crow are such. \ .—Yours, etc., RARAE AVES? November 16, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29673, 17 November 1961, Page 3
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