LIQUOR AT CABARETS.
DRINKING BY GIRLS
JUSTICES OF PEACE CONCERNED.
NO CHECK ON “SPOTTING.”
(Ey Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND. Tuesday. Drinking by young people, especially at cabarets, was discussed at length at this morning’s session of the Justices of the Peace Federation. In introducing a remit that it should be made a criminal offence to supply liquor to females under 21 years of age, Mr A. 11. Hobbs (Canterbury), said girls were supplied with liquor too frequently. It would be a good thing if the conference indicated that it was not in sympathy with the hip,poclcet flask practice. In Christchurch he knew there was a good deal of giving of ‘‘spots’’ to girls. Mr Donaldson (Auckland) : “I am sorry to have to admit that there is ample evidence in this city to support the remit.” He criticised the control of drinking in cabarets, there being, he alleged, no effective check on “spotting." Mr D. McFarlane (Wanganui) pointed out that although girls could marry after the age of sixteen years it would be a criminal offence for a father to give her a drink, even in his own house. Cabaret “spotting” was in motor-cars, the liquor not being taken into cabarets.
The matter was deferred pending re-drafting of the resolution.
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Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19203, 13 March 1934, Page 6
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