EMPLOYMENT OF BARMAIDS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8456, 5 June 1907, Page 6

EMPLOYMENT OF BARMAIDS

By Telegraph—Press Association

AUCKLAND,'June 4

At the- annual meeting of the Licensing Committee, to-day, the Chairman referred to employment of barmaids in hotels. Twelve months ago the elected members of the Committee made a pronouncement in which they expressed a hope that all licensees should as far as possible dispense with barmaids. He regretted that licensees had not acted on the expression of opinion. This made the Committee recognise that they had not power to enforce compliance with their recommendation. But they again expressed a desire that licensees should dispense with the employment of women as barmaids as soon as convenient. x Speaking to a Star reporter a member of the trade said that the matter had received careful consideration at their hands, but they considered the reform too great to bring about in the short space of time which had elapsed since the last meeting. However, they regard it is an important matter, to which they intend to give "their best attention. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 4. In regard to the employment of barmaids, at which the Auckland Licensing Committee, to-day, expressed regret, Mr M. Foley, Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, says that 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 loading hotelkeepers, stated emphatically that he was opposed to prohibiting female labour in the bars, and would use all his influence to frustrate any attempt to change the existing conditions.