DRINKING BY WOMEN.

Shannon News, 3 December 1929, Page 2

DRINKING BY WOMEN.

AUCKLAND FACILITIES. Auckland' Last Night. Special facilities are provided in some hotels for drinking by women, and there are frequent instances of young women becoming intoxicated. This statement in reports received by the Auckland Baud of Hope Union excited strong comment ' concerning drinking by girls and women in Auckland hotels at a meeting of the union’s executive.

Reports were received stating that an alarming amount of drinking goes on in the lounges of large city hotels. Young women aid not confine themselves to drinking wines of light alcoholic content, but freely ordered whisky aud cocktails, many becoming intoxicated.

It was decided to urge the. police to exercise more strict supervision of drinking in hotel lounges, and to ask the Licensing Committee to discourage the special provision being made for the supply of liquor to women. The sale of ’ rum-flavoured sweets in Auckland was also discused. A sweet maker stated he had previously made lollies with rum and butter. The sale of these had been stopped, but similar sweets made in England were now being sold in Auckland. It was claimed that these loilies were strongly flavoured with rum, and would create a taste for this liquor.'