PAINFUL BREATHING

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 16, 18 July 1903, Page 7

PAINFUL BREATHING

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Mr. Allan Smith : All shops and hotels should be closed at 6 o'clock. Mr. Winder was of. opinion that the Bill was unworkable. I Mr. R. P. Hatch advocated the zone I system. The shops in the city itself should close at 6, thoie a little further out at 7, and the shops outside the city* and in the suburbs at 8. Mrs. Whitwell : I certainly object to closing at 6 o'clock. ' Mr. W. Higginbottom, of Newtown, said he did the greater portion of his trade between 5 and 8 p.m. The smaller shopkeeper would be heavily handicapped if he had to close at 6. He moved as lan amendment : " That this meeting opposes the early-closing clause of the Bill." This was seconded by Mr. Pritchard. Mr. Colville said it Mas selfishness on the part of the large and successful dealers to seek to make closing at 6 compulsory. Mr. M. H. M'Garthy drew attention to the fact that the Bill said nothing about 6 o'clock, and this wafe < wise, as the clause now objected to Was put in the Bill to save the small shopkeeper from being shut up against his will by the larger. It was the greed of the larger dealer which prompted the' 6 o'clock sug-. gestion, and this had been the rock upon which the Grocers' Association had divided. The Chairman said speakers were unfair to the larger dealers. The sympathy of the successful shopkeepers was with the straggling man, and they had no desire to hamper him. Mr. Wardell was agreeable to altenng the hour of closing to 7. The Grocers' Association would like legislation on this subject. The hour in the motion was changed from 6 to 7 on the voices, but Mr. fiigginbottom's amendment was carried by 21 to 6. It was decided that the meeting as a whole should wait as a deputation upon the Premier. Messrs. Allan, Winder, Bush, Wardell, Godber, Lindsay, and Finlay M'Leod were appointed an executive committee, with instructions to look into alterations in proposed legislation affecting the half-holiday question. The meeting closed at 10 o'clock with a vote of thanks xo the Ghairinan.