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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1924, Page 1

If a waitress wears the traditional black frock, with white apron, in a tearoom. the duty of supplying it and laundering it, according to a decision given in Christchurch, devolves on lter.Tolf (says an exchange). But if the proprietor of the establishment wishes to strike a brighter note and make glad the eye of his customers, then under the Restaurant Workers’ Award, he not only has to supply the uuifoim, hut pay for the laundering of it. In the tearooms concerned in the ease in (jucstion the attendants mostly wear a pink dress, which harmonises with the mural decorations. These the girls have purchased themselves and industriously kept- ‘ in the pink”, as it were, with water, soap and iron. Consequently. the (Labour Department proceeded against the proprietor for a breach of the award, claiming the sum of £3. Informations were laid in respect of several girls, hut all were dismissed. on the ground that the proprietor gave evidence that black was the colour he wanted, though he informed the girls that if. woman-like. they elected to wear brighter garb, pink should he chosen. lie had impressed on them that if they did wear a coloured frock they had to get it. at their own expense.