BARMAIDS FLITTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 57, 28 July 1914, Page 4

BARMAIDS FLITTING.

e TWELVE OFJ? TO AUSTRALIA. i By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A party of twelve young women, who •hare been employed as barmaids in Auckland, are leaving by the steamer Maheno for Sydney. They are among a number of unregistered barmaids wlio received notification aij the end of iMt week that their engagements would be suspended until an opportunity could be taken of further testing the legality of c . em P'°y m , n t- The immediate cause of this action is the recent decision of the Court of Appeal that a private bar 18 _" ar within the meaning of the Act, winch provides that only women holding certificates of registration (as issued before the legislation was amend- ' ■ m! W J>e employed as barmaids. A member of the party which has booked passages for Sydney informed a icporter this morning that she and her companions had decided to act promptly, because the time taken up by the emnTn '? teßt !" s the matter would f +T lenf?t,l - V as to render it , t , 01 ' Ito stand bv in the hope of being restored to their former positions. They did not anticipate am Ma J» 1 +l SeCUn ° g i Clnp!oyment in Au *- tialia, as the registration question did J he trade th ere., „ e Ji ev ? tlle licensees are t?« V !;" yin r tlle cas fi further," said the departing barmaid, "and we w j 3 v l them luck, All the same, we an'tifT te time L the want el ■>* A™ n? we are no^ wanted, and as the time lias none bv for r s ztztz\r °r nvmSor nf 7 tLc .? nd the week the foavo Wn b ? rn>aids >" Auckland will have been reduced by 30 or 35 suspen-