TEA CUP READING.
REMOVAL OF BAN SOUGHT. A PALMERSTON PETITION. (By Telegraph—Special to Standard.) AYELLINGTON, Feb. S. “No recommendation to make” was the finding of the Petitions Committee returned to the House of Representatives to-day on the prayer of Margaret Motley and three others, of Palmerston North, for removal of the ban on tea-cup reading in tea-rooms.
Some amusement was caused by Mr J. A. Lee, who said it was extraordinary that in 1933, when the country was being flooded with pessimistic prophecies, women should bo prohibited from engaging in the innocent pastime of cup reading. “Thousands of bookmakers are laying odds and tons of thousands of people are having a bet,” he added. “1 have in my pocket an address for TattersalPs* and probably nearly every member has, but the whole majesty of the law is invoked to prevent innocent women from engaging in the reading of letters in tea leaves. The Prime Minister can go in for crystal gazing, but these women are barred by the majesty of the law. I think the committee must he one of women haters.”
The report, of the committee was adopted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 62, 9 February 1933, Page 6
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