ABOLITION OF BARMAIDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2098, 5 June 1907, Page 3

ABOLITION OF BARMAIDS.

POSITION IN AUCKLAND

Press Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. At the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee to-day, the Chairman referred to the employment of barmaids in hotels. Twelve months ago the elected members of the Committee made a pronouncement m ■which they expressed a hope that all licensees should, as far as possible, dispense with barmailds. They regretted the licensees had not acted on the expression of opinion thus made. The Committee thus recognised they had no power to enforce compliance with their recommendation, but they again expressed a desire that licensees should dispense with the employment of women as barmaids as soon as convenient. Speaking to a Star reporter, a member of the trade said the matter had received most careful consideration at their hands, but they consider the reform too great to bring about in the short space of time which had elapsed since last meeting. However, they regard it as an important matter, to which they intend to giv© their best attention. 11l regard to the employment of barmaids at which the Auckland Licensing Committee to-day expressed regret, Mr. M. Foley, chairman of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association, says the trade is unanimously against the suggested abolition and had passed a resolution courteously declining to inaugurate the reform. A member of the executive committee of the Association who is one of the leading hotelkeepers stated emphatically that ho was apposed to prohibiting female labor in the bars and would use all his influence to frustrate any attempt to change the existing conditions.