LATE HOURS.

Evening Star, Issue 7827, 7 February 1889, Page 4

LATE HOURS.

TO THE KDITOB. Sir, —Permit me to call public attention generally, and Messrs Joyce and Waddell in particular, to the matter of shop hours in George street. As the result of sympathy from tho outside public and several large public meetings, and to show thaft we (the employers) were also in sympathy with the movement, we unanimously, I may say (for there was only one or two very small shops held out), adopted eight o'clock as our closing hour instead of nine o'clock, and found the change in every way beneficial. Our assistants were brighter and better workers, and things generally seemed to be more satisfactory. Unfortunately, there is one house in the drapery going back to the old hour of nine o'clock, and unless the assistants, backod up by the Press and public opinion, do something in the matter, we will fall back into the old rut, and the utterly unnecessary hour will again bo added to our already too long day. I hope, Mr Editor, you will uso your influence in advocating the continuance of eight o'clock as the closing hour. Doubtless, tho firm in question will find by this time that the extra hour is a financial failure, and that the benefits derived from a littlo extra timo for fresh air and recreation will more than compensate for any imaginary loss.—l am, cto., An Employer. Dunedin, February 5.