FIFTY YEARS AGO
TRADING ON SUNDAYS PREVALENCE IN AUCKLAND Sunday trading, an offence which is common nqwadays, was prevalent in Auckland /50 years ago. Following is an extract from the New Zealand Hebald of March 30, 1885: — "Of Istte a class of Sunday trading has grown up" which did not exist in Auckland. At* first the shutters were left up, the gas partly turned down and the doors on the jar. Latterly emboldened with impunity, the shutters are being, in a great part, removed, the shop lit brilliantly with gas and the door thrown wide open. In fact trade is going on pretty much as on ■week-days. Why one man should be heavily fined and possibly lose his means of livelihood for selling sixpennyworth of beer on a Sunday, while another man may sell a pound's worth of' fruit is one of the things that cannot be explained. Complaints are made of the practice on the grounds that children, who receive money for church or Sunday-school Collections, are tempted to spend it surreptitiously on fruit. A number of such cases have recently occurred."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22071, 29 March 1935, Page 8
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183FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22071, 29 March 1935, Page 8
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