REGISTRATION OF BARMAIDS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1139, 29 May 1911, Page 4

REGISTRATION OF BARMAIDS.

FINAL HOUR AT HAND. Thus far about 100 barmaids in. Wei* lington city have applied to the Labour Department for regietration. It is difficult to estimate the precise number of barmaids'employed-in the city, but applications arc now, at the eleventh hour, coining in rapidly. This may be taken as an indication that the hundred applications in hand is a long way oil' the. possible total. Soiiio fifty-five of the applicants, thus far heard from, have been registered. In the case of more than half the remaining number registration has been refused, and a smaller number of applications aro still under consideration. Some doubt has arisen as to the interpretation of the clause which provides that a barmaid shall be entitled to registration on proving three months' continuous" service' in New Zealand during the twelve months preceding November 21, 1910, on which date the- Act became operative. Apparently it remains as yet an open question whether "continuous" is to bo taken in tho strictest sense, as meanin" consecutive, or whether three months' aggregate service during the twelve months named should entitle- a barmaid to registration.