A WOMAN'S WORK.
NO RIGHT IN A HOTEL.
A wo max pleaded guilty in the Wellington Police a few days ago, to a charge of entering licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order. Mr. H. F. O'Leary, who appeared for the woman, stilted that his client had to go out and seek work to earn her living. The proprietress of the Thistle Inn had offered her employment to do cleaning work. His client had accepted the offer, and had been earning money there for three weeks when "some kind friends" acquainted the police of the facts, and so the woman had one means of livelihood taken from Lor. The magistrate, in imposing a fine, said that the defendant had no right to accept employment in a hotel while she was the subject of a prohibition order. "By doing so she was qualifying for Pakatoa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14680, 15 May 1911, Page 9
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146A WOMAN'S WORK. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14680, 15 May 1911, Page 9
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