SHOPS AND SHOP ASSISTANTS' BILL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 214, 20 September 1901, Page 5

SHOPS AND SHOP ASSISTANTS' BILL.

A!S AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

Wy Telegraph—Parliamentary Reporter.?

WELLINGTON, this day. The Shops and Shops Assistants Act "which passed the House yesterday, and was sent up to the Legislative Council, amends the Act of 1894 and 1895. Clause 2 reads: "Section three of the Shops and Shop Assistants Act, 1894, and section seven of the Shops and Shops Assistants Act AmendmentAct, 1895, are hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof: 'All shops in a city, borough, or town district, except those wherein is carried on exclusively one or more

of the businesses of a fishmonger, a

fruiterer, a eonfe-etioner, a coffee- . house keeper, an eating-house keeper, or the keeper of a bookstall on a rail- ' way platform, shall be closed in each Week on the afternoon of one working ■% at the hour of one of the clock. Whenever a public holiday or halfholiday occurs in any week it shall b _ a sufficient compliance with this Act .if a shopkeeper closes his shop on such holiday or half-holiday, instead oi on the closing day under this Act.' " Clauses three, four, five, and six of I the original Bill, which gave a halfholiday to domestic servants, are , . Struck out, and the following new .:. elausft is substituted; "All chemists' •shops may be opened for the supply °f medicines and surgical appliances only between the hours of seven and I Sine o'clock in the evening, but not ■Jongei/ on the day appointed for the closing of shops, and any chemist fcay at any time in the afternoon of * flay appointed for the closing of •shops supply any medicine or surgi■^l appliance which is urgently required, but he shall then open his '"hop omly for such purpose." This is I the form in which the Bill goes np . *° the Council.