Traders’ “approved goods”

Press, 24 February 1977, Page 17

Traders’ “approved goods”

In response to numerous requests from readers of Sandy Southon’s article on the Shop Trading Hours bill (printed last Friday on this page), we publish below the full list of “approved goods” in the first schedule to the bill.

“Approved goods” correspond to the present “exempted goods” and, subject to conditions specified in the bill, may be sold at any time.

Aquarium flora and fauna:— (Including tropical fish), and food and ancillary equipment necessary for the keeping of such flora and fauna. Bakers and pastrycooks goods:— Biscuits; bread; cake; pastry; pies; sandwiches; sma'llgoods.

Building supplies and handyman’s requisites: — Timber; plywood; interior wallboard and tiles (with or without a wood content); decorative and faced boards; fibrous plaster and plaster board sheets; building paper and substitutes; damp course; sand and glass paper; fillers, adhesives, and putty; paint, primers only, in containers not exceeding 2.3 litres: nails, screws, hinges, and butts; catches and handles; hacksaw blades; hammers; handies for garden and hand toois; paint brushes; screwdrivers. Condiments: — Mayonnaise; mustard; pepper; pickles; relishes; salt; sauces; vinegar. Confectionery:— Confectionery and sweetmeats. Dairy produce:— Butter; cheese, packaged or processed: cream, including reduced cream: milk, including condensed and dried milk. Drinks:— aerated waters; cordials; cordial extracts; soft drinks. Fish; — Fresh fish and shellfish, if it is sold by the owner of a registered fishing boat or a person apnointed by him in that behalf, direct from that boat at the place where it fresh fish or shellfish is moored, berthed, or beached, or from a 'Tall within 500 metres from

that place, and if it has been taken from that boat under a valid boat fishing permit for the method or methods used to take that Frozen Foods:— Fruit, frozen; ice cream; ice blocks; meals, pre-cooked and deep frozen; vegetables, frozen. Fruit, vegetables, and flowers:— Cut flowers; fruit, fresh, bottled, or tinned. Vegetables:— Lettuce; tomatoes; vegetables, tinned or freeze-dried; vegetables sold by the grower thereof on the premises where they are grown. Fuels: — Charcoal; coke; coal; qarbonettes, and any other solid fuels derived from coal, in retail packages not exceeding 20 kilogrammes; dieseline; keroseine. Gardening supplies:— Compost; fertilisers; fungicides; garden dusts; garden sprays; insecticides; manures; mulches; peat; pesticides; plant care products; potting mixtures and ingredients; soil conditioners; weed killers. Groceries: — Breakfast cereals, pre-packaged; baked beans; cocoa, including cocoa compounds; coffee, including coffee compounds; eggs; extracts, meat or vegetable; fish, tinned: flour, in prepacked quantities not exceeding 1.5 kilogrammes; honey; jam; jelly' crystals; nuts, shelled and prewrapped; pastes and spreads; soups, tinned or packaged; spaghetti, tinned; sugar, in pre-packed quantities not exceeding 1.5 kilogrammes; tea, in pre-packed quantities not exceeding 250 grammes. Magazines and Periodicals: — These shall not be deemed to include books published either in hard-bound or paper-backed editions; newspapers. Meats and smallgoods:— Bacon: ham;, cooked; luncheon sausage; meat, tinned; sausages, prewrapped; saveloys. Medicinal and household goods:— Aspirins and similar headache tablets; babies’ bottles; baby foods; babies’ teats; cough mix-

tures; fly sprays; light bulbs; medicated confectionery; razor blades; sanitary towels; sticking plaster; bandages, and similar emergency dressings; sunburn lotions; toilet rolls; toilet soaps; toothpaste; toothbrushes. Miscellaneous Items:— Boats, candles; pantyhose; torch batteries; women's nylon stockings. Motor accessories:— Caravans and trailers; motor spirits, petrol, and oil; parts or accessories for motor vehicles, farm machinery, or farm implements. Photographic goods.— Films. Plants: — corms; plants; seedlings; seeds; shrubs;

trees; tubers (including seed potatoes). Prepared or cooked foods:— Cooked fish; cooked chipped potatoes; cooked oysters; cooked sausages; cooked saveloys; take-away foods, being prepared or cooked foods in a form ready for immediate human consumption. Tobacco:— Cigarettes: cigarette papers; cigars; matches; tobacco. “Special goods,” which may be sold at specified times outside normal trad ing hours on Saturdays, comprise vegetables, wreaths, flora! bouquets and flowers (8 a.m. to noon) and motor vehicles (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.).