HOTEL LOUNGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1941, Page 9

HOTEL LOUNGES

NO SEPARATE ONES FOR OfFICERS. POSITION IN SOUTH AFRICA. Pukka Sahibs among South Africa's .Army officers may have to wait further before they can have their liquor apart from rankers. The campaign, first revealed and criticised by the "Sunday Times" some weeks ago, by which separate lounge accommodation for ofheers and men was to be provided in local hotels, ha.*-' come to a stop for the time being, though it may be revived later on, A number of Johannesburg Licensed Victuallers and those along the Reef, agreed to improvise some kind of lounge accommodation, following the receipt of a request from th<- Senior Disciplinary Oflic e r. Criticism had. however, been growing meanwhile both in the trade and among the public. The former consid- • •red the scheme involved them in imiwessary ex]xmse. while the latter argued that then* were no n parate buses. restaurants or theatres for officers and that there was no ditllculty m practice through such social contact. Now ;i notitication has again been received fnmt the Senior Disciplinary Officer uf the t'nic.n Deft nee Force, informing hotelkeepers tii.it tin.- f?.t of names submitted had been gratefully received, but that the matter was • t<> remain m abeyance until similar lists covering tin* balance <>f thUnion were received,”