SUBURBAN STORES
SERVICE TO PUBLIC AFFECTED EFFECT OF NEW AWARD (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 10. Residents in many parts of Wellington, particularly in the outer suburbs, who have been in the habit of dashing out on Saturday morning to the small local store to obtain some urgent domestic requirement, now find this service no longer available, under the awards affecting shop assistants, which came into force on January 6. These small businesses, which are operated by the owners in spite of the fact that they have no employees, will have to observe the five-day week, in. line with the larger shops which employ assistants. The Labour Department has issued an instruction to this effect. The notification of the effect oj the new awards on the butchers, grocers’, hairdressers’, and tobacconists’ and retail shop assistants awards has come as a surprise and shock to the small shopkeepers concerned, because they were under the imnression that as they did not emrfldy labour, they would not be subject to Saturday closing conditions.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1947, Page 2
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