A book entitled '* History of the Barmaid Industry," which is talked of as ing firm next November, will be looked likely to be published by an enterprisforward to with "'much interest. It seems that there are up\«ards of 300,000 barmaids in j Great Britian, and that their average earnings' are upwards of 3s. a week each more than are obtained by the members of .any other profession, except that of " companion," to which women can'belong. !dis is now known, the barmaid industry 'has extended into Scotland, and very recently two of the employes of Messrs. Spiers &Pond m Edinburgh hav ( e been ' married— the one to a Dumfries-shire landed proSrietor, the other to the son of 'one of le ' most r popular ' clergymen m the Scottish metropolis. - '
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 79, 21 July 1877, Page 3
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