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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1072, 10 March 1911, Page 2

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REGISTRATION OF BARMAIDS,

REGULATIONS GAZETTED. They have been a fruitful topic for conversation over bar counters for several weeks—have these regulations. Imaginary provisions have been read into them, and indignation has been poured out hot and strong against the powers that wanted thorn and the nowcrs that "created them. Glasses have been emtied to their confusion, and filled again. Now, the whole thing m-obably will be gone over again, for 10-ilav barmaids in the Dominion will know definitely what it is that thev are cxneeted to do in registering themselves as barmaids, so will their numerous acquaintances. Now they will know that when tho present generation of barmaids dies out in New Zealand there will be none to lake their place. The genus barmaid will be as extinct as the dodo.

Last night's Gazette gave the registration provisions (under the Licensing Act of last session), as follow:— Every person desiring to bo registered as "a barmaid shall, on or before the first day of June, lflll, forward to the Secretary of Labour, at "Wellington, an application in duplicate. Evorv such annlication shall be accompanied ' by "a statutory declaration, On the receipt of the application the Secretary "of Labour .shall, if satisfied that tho applicant is entitled to be registered, cause the namo of the applicant and the prescribed particulars to bo entered in the Register of Barmaids. The Secretary of Labour shall cause to be kent a'Register of Barmaids. On file" entry of tho name in the Register of Barmaids the Secretary of Labour shall issue a certificate of registration.

In the application for registration the applicant is required to state whether she is single or married, and supply her address, and to send the following declaration :—

1, , of , do solemnly and sincerely declare that, sinco the 21st day of November, 1909. I havo been employed as a barmaid for a continuous period of not less than months, as follows:— Name and Address of Period Licensee or Licensees. employed, From to From to

■ And I make' this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and bv virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1 1008. [Signature of declaraut.l Declared at ; , this day of , 19 , before me— , Justice of the Peace [or solicitor, or notary public!

The register to be kept by the Secretary for Labour records each barmaid's register number, the date of registration, her full name, her address, the name of the licensed premises in which she is employed, and "any remarks regarding the registration that may bo . considered necessary.

A certificate of registration will then be issued, to bo signed by the Secretary for Labour.