SWEET SHOP HOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 13

SWEET SHOP HOURS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Will you kindly let "Uniformity"' know that small lollie shops keep open early and late to allow the shopman or woman-to try and make an honest living? Frequently these shops are kept by people who are poor or not too robust, or maiden ladies ■who have to wort early and late to make a bare living. I doubt very much whether the spread of disease would not be greater within "Uniformity's" proximity than in the usual clean, disinfected, and well-kept little shops I myself have always been for law and order, but the restrictions that are continually being forced on cne has at last had the effect of making mc close at 9 pjn. and follow the only way left to make a living.—l am, etc., MALDEX LADY. (To the Editor.) Sir, —"Uniformity' wants to know why lollie shops are not restricted like other shops. The reason is because they are restricted as to what they may sell, and any curtailment of their hours for business, especially in the evenings, nould he the means of altering them into general shops. They could not then exist on lollies, drinks a/id ice-cream only. Hence competition would be keener than ever.—l am, etc., F.KEEEKXS&