NO SHOP LIGHTS ON SATURDAY NIGHTS.
It was reported in the city yesterday that tho retailers were going to extinguish all shop lights and lamps outside business places on Saturday night. A reporter asked the President of the Retailers' Association, Mr A. M. Loasby, about it, and was told that it was so. "Frankly, wo are out to kill Saturday, and to discourage trading upon tho old lines on that day. We want to make Friday so sood that we shall not want to go back to tho old way. No, there is nothing of retaliation in this step. Before the ballot somo of us were in favour of tho Saturday halfholiday, and some for Thursday; now wo are all for the Saturday, and wo want to make Friday take its place. Already we havo arranged with the Tramway Board to give the Saturday night time-tablo a trial on Friday night, and three auctioneers in the city haveproTnieed us that they will change closo at nine o'clock on Friday nights.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14686, 7 June 1913, Page 12
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