INNKEEPING PROBLEMS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 375, 5 March 1937, Page 7

INNKEEPING PROBLEMS

Experience of Miss Ishbel

MacDonald.

Miss Ishbel MacDonald, daughter of Mr Ramsay MlacDonald and licensee of the Plough Inn, Speen, Bucks, discussed some of problems of barkeeping with young men who, under a scheme dfivlted by the Restaurant Public Houses Association, have been brought from-the Special Are’s to be trained and placed as barmen in London (states a London exchange).

The occasion was the annual reunion of the association at the Windsor Castle Hotel, Victoria, S W Miss MacDonald, as president of the training branch, presided. “Very hard, very interesting, very enjoyable,” was her description of work in a public house. “Now that I have been working in an inn," she said, “I r alise what a responsibility your work is. You are in touch with all kinds of people, and you can ‘set the tone’ of all the houses 1 in which you are working. “There are some public houses which are an insult to the working men who frequent them. You can make them all fit for any person to go into—they should be places in which people can spend their time in happy companionship.”