UNREGISTERED BARMAIDS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 7

UNREGISTERED BARMAIDS.

'... WANGANUI CASE. (By Teleeraph.-Spcclal Correspondent.) Wanganuj, February' 9. '.Tho first caso.of its kind heardin Wa- . nganui was la"id before Mr. W. Kerr, S.AI.,' at the Magistrate's' Court, this ■ morning, when a charge of employing unregistered barmaids was read against W. K HollidajViJatidloHljfflf Chavanna'.s Hotel,, Wangariui.' Defendant pleaded' guilty. Tho cmumstyncflfoWstftntlined by the> police andnadMittwi |by-;d6fendant, were that about two rnonthe ago he,applied for a registered "barmaid at Auckland, and the girl respecting whom the charge , was made was engaged. On arrival here sho represented herself, as a registered barmaid, who had a provisional certificate. Inquiries made by the police elicited tho fact that sho had applied for registration, but \yas refused. Tho girl, however, maintained 1 that she had beenregistered, but had not received her license. She was then allowed two days' leave to go to Wellington and obtain her license, but did not return', and it is believed that she is working in another hotel as barmaid. ' ■ The magistrate,'in giving judgment, took into consideration the fact that the offence had been an unintentional one, and fined defendant £1 and costs, remarking that it would be advisably in future for hotelkeepers,- when engaging barmaids, to insist on the production of their licenses. . 'HAMILTON CASE. (By .Telegrapn.-PrcßS Association.) , Hamilton, February 9.' During tho hearing of a caso at Hariiijton to-day, in' which George Bodley, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, was charged with employing an unregistered, barmaid,' Mr. Gillies, counsel for the defence, said that it was quite common custom in Auckland to employ, unregistered maids as assistants \in bars. The magistrate (Mr. Rawson) said that two' wrongs did not niake a. right, and fined accused £5 and costs,