CONCERNING BARMAIDS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10405, 19 July 1912, Page 6

CONCERNING BARMAIDS.

Frees Association. » Auckland, July 18. In reply to a deputation from the New Zealand Alliance a day or two ago, the Prime Minister, Hon. “W F. Massey, said that there was no chance of the Government bringing down a Licensing Bill this session except to deal with the question of the employment of unregistered barmaids in private bars. Inquiries instituted among responsible Union officials in Ancklaud have disclosed a state of affairs that it was never thought would have been in existence at the time when the Act was first passed. It is said that more than half of the women employed as barmaids in the private hotel bars of Auckland are unregistered. In the present state of the law licensees are, of course, quite justified in employing whom they like in the private bars of their hotels, although, as a matter of fact, there are several registered; barmaids out of employment at the present time. If the legal prohibition as to the employment of none but registered barmaids were made to apply to private as well as to public bats there would, it is expected by Union officials, naturally be a rush for the available registered barmaids. So far as public bars are concerned, probably the majority of hotel keepers already employ men as bar tenders. As things axe at present, it is estimated there are positions for about 200 barmaids in the hotels of Auckland and its immediate vicinity.