SUBURBAN SHOPS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —These shops should all b© placed on the one level, and either close at a given time or be allowed to remain open at the discretion of the occupier. If those in authority are going to connive at what are breaches of the law, and shopkeepers are to do as they please in the matter of trading, it is just ns well- that such was generally understood, and we would then know exactly where we were. The divisioning or partitioning of a shop where groceries arc sold, ostensibly for the sale of fruit and soft drinks in the evenings and Saturday afternoons, is farcical. Customers can be, and are, supplied with anything they want. Everybody knows that, and yet this unlawful trading is allowed to go on unchecked. A system of permits for late trading was disallowed some little time ago, but it is still in most cases “business as usual.” I suggest that it should be one thing or the other, and either “cut out” or lot each shopkeeper decide for himself or herself when they shall close.—l am, etc., Six o’Clock.
January 5
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Evening Star, Issue 19757, 6 January 1928, Page 9
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191SUBURBAN SHOPS. Evening Star, Issue 19757, 6 January 1928, Page 9
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