GROCERS' PLAINT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 20

GROCERS' PLAINT.

AFTER-HOUR TRADING.

SHOPKEEPERS CRITICISED. UNFAIR COMPETITION. (T.y Tclegrnpli.-ITPSS Association.) TIMART, Wihliikmlh.v. Ci»ii|ilaints of Sundiiy aiul afli-r----liiuirn milling svi-if iiiiidc at tin- iiliiniiil i-oiifficiiiT (if tin- X ew Zealand .Mn*ti>r <i lot-fi»>' l-ViliTntii.ii at TiuiHi-ii tu-iliiy. It was stilted tliat unless the |nacti<c was r,tu|.|H-(! i'iM|»l<iyi-rs would be forced til (llMliN* empliiyecs. ••Sunday and after-lii.iir trading is, it flliytliinjr. iiKiri! |.n-vali-nt. and ,-toie-keeiH-irt win, nponly limit the law look as though they receive moral Kll|i|u»rt from tin; ihiwits that lie." .«ai<l the |>ieM<leiit. Mr. .\[. .). t«in plii-11, movini: the adoption of the animal report. '•(Jroceir, employers of laUwr nlncrw ii ward and closing hiilliv, an<l yet other Htnr»'kc('|HMw win) do not cm ploy labour <roods at any time. Th« position i< most unfair, and the liovcrimient should «eo that trading is restricted to mopor hour*."' Mr. J. F. Tiirnlnill. of Wellington, who seconded the motion, sai<l that after-hour trading wan rampiuit. Unless they roiil.l -~{, prote.tioii f,-,,,,, unfair com petition after lioiirs they wmild be compelled to dismiss employees. If they coilM put Up il pro|MT case' (o the Miliister of labour there was every likelilumkl of a new Sh<i|«* and Oflices Act beinjr l»rou»ht. into force, which would •rivi> tho trade itoine protection against aftor-hour trading. The follow in}.' remit was carried: — "That the Ministers of Justice ami Labour be requested to their respective Departments when taking fiction for SuiKlay atid after-hour trading to proceed also ajrainst the purchaser under Section r>4 of the .liiKticps of the Peace Act. 1!>27. for aiding and abetting in the coinmirision of an offence.' , Another remit stated that the Hnveminent should be urjrerl to introduce a nient-iire fixing universal opening and L-losinjr hours apjilicablu to all shops.