FRUIT SHOP HOURS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29712, 4 January 1962, Page 12

FRUIT SHOP HOURS

Reminder Of New Provisions

Owners of many fruit and vegetable shops, dairies, and mixed businesses in Canterbury were apparently not aware of the effect of the closing hours provisions in the new fruit and vegetable shop assistants’ award, a spokesman of the Labour Department in Christchurch said yesterday. The general effect of the new closing hours provisions is that all occupiers of fruit and vegetable shops, mixed businesses and dairies whose stock includes fruit and vegetables (other than items on the exempted goods list) will have to remove this stock from sale or have it effectively shuttered if they wish to remain open outside the prescribed hours. Before the new award came into effect on November 6, 1961, all fruit and vegetables could be sold from Monday to Saturday without any restriction on hours in Canterbury. The prescribed hours are defined as not before 8 a.m. on Mondays to Saturdays and not after 8 pun. on Mondays to Thursdays and 9.30 p.rn. on Fridays and 9 p.m. on Saturdays. There are no prescribed opening hours on Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Anzac Day. The produce on the exempted goods list includes frozen, bottled, or tinned fruit, fresh strawberries and raspberries, frozen or tinned vegetables lettuces, and tomatoes.