LONGER DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1942, Page 7

LONGER DAY

AND NO LATE NIGHT

•PROPOSAL FOR AUCKLAND

SHOPS

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 8.

The abolition of Friday late shopping night and the later closing of shops on six days of the week were unanimously approved at a meeting of Mayors and chairmen of local bodies in the Auckland E.P.S. area, convened by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr. Allum. The meeting authorised Mr. Allum to make a formal request to the Minister of National Service (Mr. Seinple) in terms of the Emergency Regulations just gazetted, that all local bodies in the area be authorised to fix dosing hours of shops as follows:—On the five weekdays in each week, 6 p.m.; on the day of the weekly half-holiday, 1 p.m. These limitations are not to apply to chemists' shops and eating-places. The request regarding the weekly half -holiday was to be made conditional upon regulations permitting the extension of hours after noon. "It will be of great assistance to the authorities and to retailers if the public will shop as early in the day as possible and so relieve the usual lunchhour rush," said Mr. Allum after the meeting. "It will also be helpful if the public will carry parcels .wherever possible. Delivery is a matter of extreme difficulty, because of the shortage of petrol, staff, and vans."