WOMEN BARRED
RESTAURANTS' RESTRICTIONS
LONDON, April 2. Women can vote and fly and sit in Parliament, but they cannot obtain meals in many first-class restaurants at night time if they are alone. The sex's growing indignation at the situation has Ted women to launch a campaign througlioul Britain, headed by Lord I'.all'oiir, of P.uHeigh. against the prohibition.
This Victorian survival, which originally was enforced to exclude mule sirab'les. operates also against respect able citizens. Distinguished women social workers have fiViiuenlly been refused refreshment at night time after business or public engagements.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 11
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