WEDNESDAY CLOSING DAY

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25094, 28 January 1947, Page 6

WEDNESDAY CLOSING DAY

DECISION FOR SUMNER AND ' NEW BRIGHTON

Wednesday was fixed as the «t»h> torr closing da y New Brighton Sumner at a special meeting of the Christchurch City Council last even! Messrs Charles s. Thoma. Thompson wrote enclosing a copv of the lists of the parties exemption from the retail shop assist! awards d and the Brocers ’ assistants’ The New Brighton Business AssoS.± >1 ; Wro . tc that the v °thig at a special meeting was 51 in favour ot Wednesday to three against The Sumner Business People’s Association forwarded a petition from 24 asking for the retention of the Wednesday holiday. There were only five or six shopkeepers who wished to close all day on Saturdays. • Cr ;u!g,% Ly° ns said that, following the definite suggestion that shopkeepers at New Brighton and Sumner had to close on Saturday without respect to what day was the statutory closing day, the by-laws committee consulted the council’s solicitors. The committee was given a fairly lengthy opinion, but the gist of it was that the Arbitration Court had not yet the right to overrule the Legislature, and that it was competent for the council to fix the statutory closing day of the seas, e suburb B - The evidence was overwhelming that the people of the suburbs preferred Wednesday.