PROHIBITION PARTY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1412, 24 March 1905, Page 3

PROHIBITION PARTY.

BARMAIDS AND OTHER SUB., JRCTS IN, AUSTRALIA*

Baf Electric Telegraph—Per Press ; * Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, March. 22. The Prohibition parly, have askad ,h<£sChief Secretary to include the ollojving provisions in the new X.i[uor Bill :—Right of .veto by a ample majority, without any form of ioEftensation, of ail liquor selling icenses ; effective closing of hotels )n Sundays and. election days and dosing op weeks nights at .the same as ordinary, business premises ; lronibition of the sale of liquor to iersans under eighteen-; non-employ-nent of barmaids; abolition of ttorekeepers' license placing of ia&x on. the same looting as hotels; aid substitution of elective licensing bmmittees for licensing benches. f'Mr G. J ; 7 Bruce said his experience )S prohibition in New Zealand was ijal it had proved the only effective hethob of dealing with the traffic. IMr Hogue promised that some of she suggestions would be included, md. others would have to come . graiusEily. In regard to barmaids, uness there were conditions affecting the health attaching to the occupai’qh it was unsound to argue that jjS employment of women was ixong. To his mind there .were stronger temptations to go astray in some other walks of- life than behind the bar. Barmaids were better paid and therefore more independent and better able to look after themselves than .wamenj in some other callings.