TIPS FOR SERVICES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 119, 23 May 1932, Page 12

TIPS FOR SERVICES

OUT OF PROPORTION IN ENGLAND. EVEN GOLF AFFLICTED. There is little doubt that tipping nowadays has grown out of all proper tion to the services rendered. As the purchasing power of the pound has gone down, so the amount expected and paid in tips has gone up. For j years ago a housemaid never expected more than half-a-crown, for a week-end visit, and a butler five shillings; and the usual tariff for a keeper i .is five to ten shillings a day.

In all cases the tariff is now double< with the result that nowadays it ht become a matter of serious consider; tion for persons of small means as t how far they arc able to accept inv tations to visit their friends (write G. Cornwallis West in the Daily Teh graph). I know of many cases whci men invited to shoots have regretful!

had to decline, as they know they will have to tip the keeper n pound a day—and this, combined with the fact that cartridges cost double as much as they did before the war, makes it altogether impossible. If tipping is admitted as a necessary evil, by far the f"-rest systc; • is that adopted by Captain Combo at Strath conan, and by owners of son. other places where I have stayed in Scotland A box is provided, and at. the end of his visit a guest can. if ho wishes, place what he can afford in it. At the end of the season the contents are dis tributed pro rata to the status of the employees. . . If there is one form of tipping which T abominate more than another it is the sort of blackmail that is levied by caddies on many p g( ? f I courses round London. Golf us Ito be a cheap game before th- war; you could get. a club for 7s 6d and a ball for Is; your caddie cost you Is a round, and was pleased to receive Is at the end of the day. Now the average cost per round is 2s, plus the booking foe and in many cases the caddie expect, a 100 per cent, bonus, and is often rude if ho doesn’t got it-