TIPPING TABOO
NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS
(From "The Post's" Representative.) . SYDNEY, 2nd June, lipping is now taboo ou the Stato railways. If ono is found offering gratuity to a railway employee, as an acknowledgment of tho latter's zeal, for example, in making certain that he gets asleeping berth.or a window 4eat on a long distance train, or in v showing somo other special attention, he is liable to a penalty not exceeding £2. The attitude of the authorities, of course, is that the employees, as the servants of the public, and as tho recipients of a decent wage, should treat all alike. The tipping habit in Sydney, as in other parts of Australia, is not, how.over, confined to railway employees. One feels almost ashamed to leave even a hairdressing saloon without leaving a gratuity behind. Australians like to talk about their sturdy independence, but when it comes to tipping about the only distinction between them and those abroad who wait upon the public is that the former expect a good deal more by way of a tip than tho lattor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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180TIPPING TABOO Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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