"NOT WANTED."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9130, 1 July 1908, Page 3

"NOT WANTED."

—■ ■ ' • Special attention is drawn in the ' Auckland "Herald"'to the grievance Which every mother in the Dominion buffers—viz., the difficulty of securing accommodation at decent hotels and boarding-houses when travelling with children. It is pointed out that while there is a law to compel laepers of accommodation houses to take in women and children, it is honoured more in the breach than in the obsevance. If the mother and her children are received into a hotel too often they find themselves "not ; wanteds" in the establishment, the mother subjected to tha haughty, airs and small insolence? of chamber and waiting maids, and reduced to a nervous wreck in the effort to suppress tha small fry whose nerves and tempers are affected by the inhospitable atmosphere and constant repression,- and who are more troublesoma than usual as a consequence. ■"Fall up" is, however, the reception which very, often meets a woman with children who presents herself for admission at a hotel or boarJingHou33. Making a prohibitive charge as another device resorted to by some Jiotal and boardinghouse -kejperj as a reminder to mothers with children not to remain, but this difficulty of ODtrk&ing accomodation, is only one asp M.of the disabilities and indign\V&\ which mothers travelling with .young' children have to suffer. _A j -case came under the writer's notice, recently, where a young and refined ( imoihar, travelling with her two-; year-old little girl in a first-class. ■carriage to Rotorua, had perforce to seek the shelter of a second-class carriage, where there were other chihlrei', rather than put up with tha manifest objections of the firstclass passangera to the little ones' childish prattle and natural restlesa--31333. The writer, as a remedy, suggests that hotels and boardingihouses should be compelled to have well-equipped nurseries, and that children's carriages should also be introduced on the railways. It is .interesting to know that MrF.-E. Baume, member for, Auckland East will probably introduce a Bill during the session to deal with the complaint.