SEATS FOR SHOP GIRLS.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 379, 18 February 1927, Page 3

SEATS FOR SHOP GIRLS.

(To the Editor.) Dear Madam, I was very pleased to read in your January issue "A Draper's" plea for seats for our Shop-Girls. In these days when so much is being done for the health of the community, it is high time that the public in general, and our Women’s Societies in particular, took up this question which so vitally affects the health of so many hundreds of women and girls. It is interesting to hear from “A Draper,” that shop girls in Melbourne and Sydney and San Francisco are provided with seats. He urges every W.C.T.U. to interview' their Local M.P. (a wise step) and goes on to state that our present Act does not insist that the seat shall be behind the counter. Haw Wt*such an Act? If so. it is surely honoured more in the breach than in the observance. Your correspondent says: “I find a girl more kindly and polite with customers if she has a rest.” This must be true, therefore one would

thiuk that the drapers ♦heinselves would provide the seats that make for efficiency. 1 see that the drapers' Conference meets in Christchurch this week. The late T. E. Taylor—the man ol vision —years ago urged this reform. Let us be ui> and doing, and secure this boon for our over-tired Shopgirls. lam, etc., “A COUNTRY WOMAN.”