THE GERMAN TIP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1061, 7 July 1910, Page 23

THE GERMAN TIP.

Germany is the land of tipping. The tip may not be large, but a tip of some sort is universally expected, and the wise traveller will accommodate himself to the habits of the country by tippihg little and often. That the tipping system is organised is shown by an? incident at Hamburg recently. There is a regular scale of charges there for the station porters who carry travellers’ baggage from the train to the cab or automobile as the case may be. If the traveller gives more than the scale the porter is bound to hahd the extra tip over to a common fund. It has been found, however, that in busy tiues the porter’s attention is too nuch occupied with his work to allow of his complying with the regulation, and the result has been that the company lately dismissed a dozen porters for “dishonesty.”

beek for Peter Farquhar, licensee of the Newmarket Hotel, pieaded guilty in the Police Court, oefore Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M-, to having failed to keep a book to enter all orders for liquor for delivery into a no-license district; and, further, with selling a jar of beer to Robert Mulgrove, after being notified that such liquor was to be taken into a no-license area, and failing to furnish a written statement thereof to the clerk of the S.M. Court. Mr. J. R. Reed, who appeared for defendant, said. that his client knew nothing of the transaction, as his barman had served Mulgrove. The barman had done all he considered necessary; A label was placed: on the jar of beer, and endorsed, “This package contains alcoholic loquor.” but the barman failed to take the purchaser’s name s anil address in writing- Defendant had not instructed his barman in the technicalities ' of the law, through not himself. having a knowledge of the precise requirements. His Worship remarked that the prosecution was a somewhat peculiar one, and the first of its kind, but it seemed the circumstances were very innocent. Mulgrove, who was also charged with taking liquor into a no-license district without notifying the consignor of his name and address, had also apparently acted in ignorance of the law. A nominal fine of 10s, and costs 7s, was inflicted in each case.