EMPLOYMENT OF BARMAIDS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1496, 19 July 1912, Page 4

EMPLOYMENT OF BARMAIDS.

POSITION IN AUCKLAND. (Bj Tolcsraph.-Presa Association.} ' Auckland, July 18. ■ in reply to a deputation from the JNew Zealand Alliance u day or two (isjn, the. Prime Minister (the 'Hon. W. V. Mnssoy) said that tlisro wns no olnuicn o: tho Government bringing down a Licensing 13ill this session, except to deal with the question of tho employment of unregistered barmaids in private bars. I'roiti inquiries instituted among wepnnsiblo union oflicials in Auckland, it ap' pears that more than half of the women, employed as barmaids in the private hotel Uirs of Auckland axo unregistered. In. the present ftato of tho law licensees are of course njrito justified in employing whom they like iu tho private bars of their hotels, although, as a matter of fact, there are several registered Ivsrmaids out;of employment at tho pro-ont time If the legal prohibition, as to \h* employment of nen* but registered b.irmaids wero m.vle te apply to ptivvltt'a* woll os t« public, bars there trouW, it fs expwfod liy union official?, natural!? l>s a rush foy the uvaila.hle Wgistereil b,n'uiaid.e. ,So hr ,ns puhliil Isaw eve concerned, probably the majority of the liotolkpopers nlready employ men- as bartenders, In a. general way, as things are at present, it is estimated that thero are positions for about 200 barmaids in tho hotels of Auckland and ite immediate viciniWt