AFTER-HOUR TRADING
Shopkeepers Protest (Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) SYDNEY, March 10. A number of Sydney suburban shopkeepers said this week they would go to gaol rather than pay fines for after-hours trading. This follows the withdrawal of an after-hours trading charge by the Department of Labour and Industry against a Manly Shopkeeper (Mrs J. Thompson). Mrs Thompson, wife of the secretary of the Amalgamated Independent Traders’ Association of New South Wales, had said she would go to gaol rather than pay a fine. The Minister of Labour and Industry (Mr J. J. Maloney) then withdrew the summons against Mrs Thompson because, he said, he was not prepared to see her suffer for any propaganda value her husband might be seeking. Several women shopkeepers are among those who have said they would go to gaol rather than pay fines for breaking trading laws. They said they were determined to show the public the stupidity of New South Wales laws restricting small shop owners. Two of the women were served with summonses by the Department of Labour and Industry for not having shutters covering certain lines of groceries on a Saturday.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30389, 13 March 1964, Page 9
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