EMPLOYMENT OF BARMAIDS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 53, 20 July 1912, Page 5

EMPLOYMENT OF BARMAIDS

; POSITION IN AUCKLAND. By Telegraph—Press Asaoeiation. , Auckland, Thursday. In i reply to a deputation from ' the New Zealand Alliance a day or two ago, the Prime Minister (Hon. W. F. Massey) said 'that there was no chance of tiie Government bringing down a Licensing Bill this session, except to deal with the question of the employment of unregistered! barmaids in private bars. From inquiries instituted among responsible union officials in Auckland, it appears that imore than half of the women employed as barmaids in the private hotel bars jof Auckland are unregistered. In the present state of the law licensees are, of course, quite justified in employing -\j'hom .they like in the private bars of their hotels, although, as a matter of fact,, there arc several registered barmaids out of employment at the present time.) If the legal prohibition" as to the employment of none but registered barmaids were made to apply to private as well ps to public bars there would, it is expected by union officials, naturally be a. rush for the available registered baimjaids. So far as public bars are concerned, probably the majority of the hoteljveepers already employ men as bartenders. In a general way* as things arc at ,pi-e.scnt. it is estimated that there are positions for about 200 barmaid-, in the hotels of Auckland and its immediate vicinity.