MUNICIPAL REST ROOM

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 123, 27 May 1942, Page 6

MUNICIPAL REST ROOM

"Woman Worker" rightly dismisses the Dunedin Licensing Victuallers' Industrial Union of Employees' resolution to open hotel, bars, 7.30 to 10.30 p.m.; such hours would increase drinking and deprive workers of rest and sleep and the companionship of their families. My husband and two sons take a glass of beer, and they agree with me that in the present necessity to restrict spending of time and money upon non-essentials hotel bar hours should be only from 10 or 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p,m„ which would provide reasonable opportunity to the public for the purchase of spirituous liquor. The article by Sir Keith Murdoch on the "Lost Division," in which he calls . . . for a commanding morale "• • . of love of country and all the people," suggests to me that in furtherance of this united spirit municipal rest rooms, etc., should be provided, where the general public could rest and relax, partake of light refreshments, and read newspapers periodicals, ete. A small charge of 3d covering one day, could be made A Test room of this kind would provide alternative to hotel bars and remove to a considerable extent the inducement to over-drinking if church members and temperance workers were practical, they would realise that appeals and exhortations to temperance should be accompanied by material means to accomplishment. A HOUSEWIFE.