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EMPLOYMENT OF BARMAIDS
MELBOURNE, Aug. 11. Victoria will not employ barmaids “merely for the sake of war conditions,” declared the Victorian Premier (Mr. Dunstan) at the State Premiers’ conference to-day. “War needs might make it necessary to override the Victorian State laws,” said the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, replying. “We are getting into a most paradoxical position when we say in one breath that women shall not be permitted to drink in bars,” remarked Mr. Dunstan, “and in another breath that women shall be permitted to serve in bars.” “It is necessary to encourage a policy which will produce disemployment, so that people who are disemployed can be placed in war industries,” replied Mr. Curtin. “We are not going to deprive ourselves of men merely to provide masculine dispensers of beer in Melbourne hotels.” Victoria voted against the employment of women in hotel bars in 1924. The State licensed those then in that occupation, and no more licenses have been issued.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1942, Page 6
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