Saturday shopping to come?

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33110, 28 December 1972, Page 2

Saturday shopping to come?

(N.Z. Press Association/ HAMILTON, Dec. 27. The Retailers’ Federation may be moving towards advocacy of Saturday shopping in the centre of cities. A recent survey by the Distribution Council showed that almost half of the country’s metropolitan population wanted citycentre shops open on Saturdays. The president-elect of the Retailers’ Federation, Mr J. D. M. Liddle, in a report in “Retail New's”—the federation’s journal—said he strongly believed that trading hours could be extended to include Saturday mornings. “FAMILY AFFAIR” Shopping, he said, should be a family outing—a time when a husband and wife should get together to buy the household needs, not as something the wife does for the husband and family. "Apart from Friday nights, there is no time they can do this,” he said. Mr Liddle is manager for New Zealand of Woolworths (N.Z.), Ltd, He has had considerable experience with the company in Australia, and he has been president of the Queensland Retailers’ Association and vice-president of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce. WORLD STUDY

In 1967, Mr Liddle w'ent on a world trip to assess changing retail patterns in Canada, the United States, Britain, Continental Europe, and Scandinavia, among other countries.

Sympathy.—The Prime Minister (Mr Kirk) has sent a message of sympathy on the death of the former | United States President, Mr Harry S. Truman, to President Nixon and to Mr Tru- | man’s daughter, Miss Margaret Truman.—(P.A,)