EARLIER PAY-DAY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 42, 13 November 1936, Page 8

EARLIER PAY-DAY

Retail Opinion Warmly in

Favour

“The suggestion has often been made to advance the general weekly pay-day to an earlier day in the week, and so give shoppers more time in which to spread their purchases. It would be more satisfactory to the housewives and shoppers generally and would give retailers a relief from the late Friday night and Saturday morning rush, enabling them to give the public better service, with more time to devote to their demands,” states the official organ of the New Zealand Federation of Drapers, Clothiers, and Boot Retailers. “With the application of the five-day week in many trades the movement for an earlier pay-day has been taken up by the labour organisations, and is being supported by Government departments and local bodies. Such action will be warmly welcomed by our retail associations as a relief from the congestion caused by the week-end rush, and the general adoption of a pay-day about the middle of the week would be a step in the direction of making the five-day week a more feasible project in future. “It is certainly a far more reasonable approach to the problem than the suggestion discussed by the Auckland Trades and Labour Council to boycott all shops open on Saturdays, and so endeavour to force Saturday closing by intimidatory methods which will scarcely appeal to the public-. At present the vast majority of workers’ wives do the bulk of their shopping on Friday nights and Saturdays, and they would be the ones most inconvenienced if shopping facilities were not available. An earlier pay-day and greater spread of the purchasing period would enable the same volume of business to be done before the week-end rush, and be an advantage to both shoppers and shop assistants.”