SHOPPING AT AIRPORT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29130, 16 February 1960, Page 22

SHOPPING AT AIRPORT

Exemption From Hours Sought

Partial exemption from retail hours for its two shops to be established in the new Christchurch air terminal building will be sought by J. Ballantyne and Company, Ltd., in the Magistrate’s Court next week. The firm will seek to have its shops open for business from 7.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday to Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays; and for an hour before and an hour after the arrival and departure of overseas aircraft.

Closing hours from which the firm seeks part exemption are requirements fixed in the New Zealand (except Northern Industrial District) Retail Shop Assistants’ Award and the New Zealand (except Otago and Southland) Chemists’ Assistants’ Award.

The firm claims its application is desirable in the public interest to provide shopping hours for the travelling public, and that the exemption it seeks is unlikely to have any injurious effect on any other shop. The firm has rented shop space in the overseas wing of the new City Council terminal building and another area for a shop in the internal airways section. The classes of business the firm proposes to carry on at the shops are listed in the notice of application as follows:

Travellers’ requirements in stationery, New Zealand souvenirs and souvenir jewellery and accessories, toilet requisites, perfumes and cosmetics, wet weather necessaries, photographic supplies and equipment, sporting goods for airborne visitors, incidental items of men’s and women’s wear and accessories, pharmaceutical items and travel bags and cases. Any occupier of a shop, or representative of the industrial unions concerned, or of an organisation that considers it might be affected by the proposed hours will be entitled to be heard at the hearing of the application.