"TIPPING" ABROAD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22917, 21 December 1937, Page 5

"TIPPING" ABROAD

NUISANCE TO VISITORS "Although living in New Zealand may not be the paradise the world expects it to be there are many compensations," said Mrs. J. Fuller-Gore, of Wellington, who arrived at Auckland yesterday b.v the Awatea after an extended visit to England, the United States and Australia. Speaking of her experiences abroad. Mrs. Fuller-Gore said a nuisance that did not greatly trouble one in NewZealand but that became a positive menace in England and the United States was the custom of "tipping." "One tips one's taxi driver, the mail who opens the door of the beauty salon, the girl who prepares one for the shampoo, the one who sets the hair, the one who dries it, the manicurist and the girl who shows one out, and finally the man who opens the door again," said Mrs. Fuller-Gore.

In all hotels and most restaurants the 10 per cent tip was considered part of the cost of the meal and the minimum the diner should give, and although tipping was practised on a larger scale in the United States than in England, in both countries it was often annoying. Mrs. Fuller-Gore cout sidered that while a reward for service was regretted or grudged by no one, the habit of wholesale tipping encouraged mediocre service. During her, seven months abroad, Mrs. Fuller-Gore visited Germany, which, she thought, had changed little in the last two or three years, Italy, Denmark and Holland.