WOMEN IN HOTELS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19041, 11 June 1925, Page 10

WOMEN IN HOTELS.

APPEAL TO LICENSEES. MAGISTRATE'S CONDEMNATION. " A CURSE FROM THE WAR." "We consider this as a very seiious matter," remarked -tho chairman of the Licensing Committee, Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., at tho annual mooting yesterday, in referring to the quostion of women drinking in hotels. " A woman has as much right to go into hotels as a man," said Mr. Poynton, " but this drinking in hotels is'one of our curses from tho war. Beforo the war no. respectable woman in Now Zealand would have been seen drinking in hotels. We think it desirable to discourago the practice. It is bad enough for men to drink but when a woman drinks—well, we know what .the wreck of a family is. Wo hope that Auckland licensees will not only not encourage it, but that they will discourage it." In his report Sub-Inspector Rawlfl said that at the time of his visit to hotels in the city which catered for women drinking oh the premises, ho found seven women in the Albion, none in tho City (the sergeant's reports showed this to be the practice), six in the Grosvenor, eight in the Shamrock, and eight in the Star (Newton). Nono wero under the influence of liquor. " While it is undesirable that women should be allotted a private bar," said the "the action of those permitting it is within the law, and it is to the credit of the majority of the Auckland licensees that tho system is not encouraged." . • ■ . '