LIQUOR IN CABARETS

Evening Star, Issue 22087, 22 July 1935, Page 6

LIQUOR IN CABARETS

MANAGERS' DIFFICULTIES BUSINESS WAN SUGGESTS LICENSING [Bpbcial to tbs ’Stax.’) AUCKLAND, July 22. “ Liquor is undoubtedly consumed on the premises by some people,” said the manager of an Auckland cabaret on Saturday, when asked to comment on the allegation that there were disgraceful scenes at a recent ball, at which intoxicated women had to be carried to motor cars. “ It cannot be denied that liquor is taken to cabarets,” added the Manager, “but it is tremendously difficult to prevent it It can readily be seen how impossible it would be to submit everybody visiting a cabaret to a systematic search to make certain that no flasks were carried in hip pockets. It would bo farcical to attempt such a course. However, when guests _ arrive carrying suitcases, we always inquire as to the contents. Sometimes the information is vouchsafed that shoes are being carried, and sometimes it is that a birthday is to be celebrated, and that the customary cake has been provided.” The opinion that it was unreasonable to expect parties of people to go to cabarets without a certain amount of liquor being, consumed was expressed by an Auckland business man. “ Because a few irresponsibles occasionally lose their sense of proportion is no reason why perfectly good citizens should be deprived of harmless gaiety,” he said. “I am convinced that if cabarets could be licensed there would be less cause for complaint from the anti-liquor section of the community than there is at present,’’