SALE OF TOBACCO.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 11

SALE OF TOBACCO.

DAILY HOURS AND HOLIDAYS. FIXED BY MINISTER. The long-looked-for Gazette notice fixing the closing hours of tobacconists' shops within the combined district of Christchurch has now come to hand. The notice provides .that on and after May 21st, 1928, all tobacconists' shops within the combined district of Christchurch, shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows:—Subject to closing at not later than 1 p.m. on the day of the statutory half-holiday, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 6 p.m., and on Fridays at 10 p.m., with the following exceptions: — (1) During Carnival Week, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 8 p.m., on Thursday at 10 p.m., and on Saturday at 9 p.m. (2) During Grand National Week, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 8 p.m., on Friday at 10 p.m., and on Saturday at 6 p.m. (3) On Christmas Eve and on New Tear's Eve, at 12 midnight.. (4) In the event of Christmas Day falling on a Sunday or a Monday the following hours of closing shall be observed during the week preceding Christmas Day; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 6 p.m., Friday at 12 midnight; Saturday at 11 p.m. (5) Where a special holiday occurs on a Friday and the shops are closed for the whole of the day, the hour of closing on the preceding Thursday shall be 10 p.m. The notice dated October 31st, 1916 and published in the New Zealand Gazette of November 2nd, 1916, fixing the dosing hours of hairdressers', tobacconists', and hairdressers and tobacconists' shops within the City of Christchurch, is cancelled in so far as it relates to the shops affected by this notice as from the date of the coming irto operation of the notice. AH other shops within the combined district in which smoking requisites are sold shall be closed at the same hours as are set out for tobacconists shops: Provided that no such other shop which is closed for the statutory half-holiday on any day other than Saturday shall be required by the Act, to be closed earlier than 9 p.m. on Saturday. /