CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 152, 29 June 1944, Page 4

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

SHOPPING HOURS (To the Editor) rr I Preserve me from descending to the cheap and undeserved mud-sling, ing at an opponent, as indulged in by the "Eight Grocers, etc," but may I take up the cudgels on behalf of the seemingly forgotten customer? It is quite evident that those "Eight Grocers" or their better halves do not know much about children, otherwise they would know that the only time allowable for busy mothers for gossiping is while they are impatiently waiting to be served by the said grocers. I'm afraid every, one is prone to forget things, but then accidents happen in the best regulated families. However, I could venture to warrant that the Saturday morning traders of these davs are not the forgetters but the "trying-to-getters" of some of the "we haven't gots" or "not in yets," as chanted by the grocers, such as packet cheese, prunes, sultanas, honey, lard, bacon, eggs, biscuits, and that mythical commodity, tinned fruit. Personally, my children ai-e old enough to wade through the intricacies of legitimate rationing, plus the grocery-imposed rationing, to do my Saturday mornings shopping, but I, and I guess most of those 4500 customers, if asked, would definitely say we do not want the shops shut on Saturday, and especially the butchers (who reasonably so far have not suggested it). Concerning clothing stores, what sort of a hectic rush I would ensue on Friday nights when mothers would have to take their children to town to fit coat, hat. dress or shoes? I can safely say that neither the harassed shop assistants nor those they profess to serve would be satisfied. I.K.S.