TRADING AFTER HOURS
MINISTER’S REPLY TO GROCERS
INVESTIGATION SAID TO BE IMPRACTICABLE
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 20.
A letter from the Acting Minister of Labour (Mr T. L. Macdonald) setting out 1 the Government’s attitude toward after-hour trading is • criticised by the New Zealand Master Grocers’ Federation. The letter says that “having regard to the overtime and other costs involved, it is not practicable at the present time to give any undertaking to have after-hour investigations carried out.”
A leading article in the “New Zealand Grocers’ Review,” the official organ of the federation, describes the Minister’s statement as almost unbelievable. It says the federation has been urging the Government to enforce the after-hour trading law for the last two years.
The Minister’s letter says that action is being taken by the department’s officers to encourage dairies and other small shops to partition those parts of their premises m which groceries are stocked. It adds, however, that there is no possibility of prosecuting, because these shops are not bound by the award closing hours.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27097, 21 July 1953, Page 3
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