LICENSING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 5 June 1907, Page 2

LICENSING.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Juno 4. The annual lucoting of tho City Licensing Committee was held to-day, when all existing licenses were renewed. Tho committee announced tlnit no additional New Zealand wine licenses would lie granted. j Auckland, June 4. At the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee to-day tho chairman referred to the employment of barmaids in hot»ls. The committee recognised that they had not the power to enforce compliance with ttiwuiuncndation, but they again expressed a desire tnat licensees should dispense with the employment of women as barmaids as soon as convenient. Later. In regard to the employment of barmaids, at which the Auckland Licensing Committee to-dnv expressed regret, Mr Foley, chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, says the trade is unanimously against the suggested abolition, and had passed a resolution courteously declining to inaugurate the reform. A member of the executive committee of the Association, who is one of the leading hotel-keepers, stated emphatically that he was opposed to prohibiting female labor in (lie bars, and would use all his influence to frustrate any attempt to change existing conditions.