A WAIHI COMEDY.
HOTEL GIRINS ON STRIKE
Waihi, September 23,
A demonstration took place outside Sheffield’s Commercial Hotel, on Saturday evening. Sheffield states that on Thursday night tour girls interviewed Mrs Sheffield, stating that they would not work with one girl, a laundress, as her sympathies were not with the strikers. Mrs Sheffield replied she could not be dictated to as to whom she employed, and if they didn’t like working with the girl they could take 48 hours’ notice. This was accepted, and it expired on Saturday night. A report was current that the girls refused to work because they had to wait upon policemen. There is no truth in the rumour, as the question of waiting on the police never cropped up. The girls leit the hotel on Saturday night, and were lustily cheered by the crowd outside. Sheffield says he hasn’t been put to any great inconvenience by the event, and is expecting some girls from Auckland in a few days. He also states there was a needlewoman in the hotel waited on fay the union executive and cautioned not to wait on policemen.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1000, 24 September 1912, Page 3
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187A WAIHI COMEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1000, 24 September 1912, Page 3
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