OPPOSED TO TIPPING
S.LP.A. Affirm Decision (From Our Own Reporter) HOKITIKA May 3. “We put up with tipping in this country only because we are moral cowards and don’t want to appear tight-fisted to persons who are well paid for the service they provide,” said Mr H. L. Gibson (Dunedin) at the annual conference of the South Island Publicity Association. The association passed a remit affirming its opposition to tipping.
“No matter what money you give a waiter in a hotel for drinks you always get a certain coin in the change which is obviously expected to be given as a tip,” Mr Gibson said.
“It would be a good thing for the tourist industry if New Zealand could be advertised as a country free from tipping,” said Mr A. C. Brassington (Christchurch), who moved the remit.
The practice of tipping was growing here because of tourists and immigrants from countries where tipping was a normal practice. The people of New Zealand were apposed to tipping. It could price hotels and other amenities beyond the purse of the average New Zealander. Mr A. O. Davies (Otago) said the insidious practice had grown up in the United Kingdom of having 10 per cent added to the bill, but the staff still put out their hands for a tip.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30741, 4 May 1965, Page 7
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