BARMAIDS BARRED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 939, 8 December 1933, Page 1

BARMAIDS BARRED.

Pennsylvania Adopts New Regulation. NEW YORK, December 1. Hotels which serve liquor on any part of the premises in the State of Pennsylvania, when national prohibition ends, must even employ men “ chambermaids.” Barmaids wfill also be barred. Widely differing methods on how to conduct drinking within their boundaries will be adopted by the various States. Every State Government will try also to get the maximum amount in taxation when the resumption of drinking comes. Distillers in some States will escape with the tax payment of only 50 cents a gallon, while Pennsylvania tops the list with the imposition of taxes totalling two dollars a gallon. lowa will issue annual drinking licenses to citizens on the same basis as for hunting or motoring. In New York you will have to drink sitting down. Standing at bars is prohibited in the belief that it is too easy “to have another.” Rhode Island is the only State where saloons will be tolerated in the future The Soviet Government has planned extensive advertising of Soviet liquor in America and will reserve 1,000,000 litres (220,000 gallons) of extra-day vodka for export to that country.