DRINKING BY YOUNG WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 55, 28 November 1929, Page 15

DRINKING BY YOUNG WOMEN

BAND OF HOPE UNION’S COMPLAINTS Dominion Special Service. Auckland, November 27. Special facilities are provided in some hotels for drinking by women, and there arc frequent instances of young women becoming intoxicated. This statement in reports received by the Auckland Band of Hope Union excited strong comment, concerning drinking by girls.and women in Auckland hotels at a meeting of the union's executive. Reports were received stating that an alarming amount of drinking goes on in the lounges of large city hotels. Young women did not confine themselves to drinking wines of light alcoholic content but freely ordered whisky and cocktails, many becoming intoxicated. It was decided to urge the police to exercise more strict supervision of drinking in hotel lounges and to ask the Licensing Committee to discourage the special provision being made for the supply of liquor to women. The sale of rum-flavoured eweets in Auckland was also discussed. A sweets nuikcr stated lie had previously made lollies with rum mid butter. The sale of these had been stopped, but similar sweets made in England were now being sold in Auckland. It was claimed that these lollies were strongly flavoured with rum and would create a taste for Ulis liquor.