EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 705, 20 June 1878, Page 2

EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the Committee of the. above Association was held last evening, chiefly for .the purpose of making a rrangemeots incoiineotion with the public ■meeting.to be held to-morrow evening. Mr.; Parker, the Secretary, state;,! that he had replies favorable to the mov<mnnit fn»ni a number of gentlemen, including the Hoiis. R. Stout and H. J. Miller; and Tifc Reld, of Elderslie ; and that the Keys. -Messrs. Todd, GihVoiu, and Dewsbury, and. Messrs. ■, liisiup, M.H.R., oumpter, Gib'os.: G. J&: : ■■■] T;;.ylor. Ferens, aiidotherSj had consented to take part in the, public meeting. : ?• The following resolutions: :were prepared for su 'omission : to the public ■ meeting ;: ■:;•;'; ■••.;:..'■■:" ■'?■;. :-Vv ; -v'-:^.;-:^-' : 1. That the late hour.-.to which, particularly'on..Saturdays, the retail 'establishments of' this town are kept open,,in vol ires' ahundue tax upon the energies iOtti'adesmeii Mid: tr'a Joamen's; assistants, at the/same time: | their;: haying that. lemire; for ; and .mental iniprovenient; >o :ue-' jiia..,ai-y to .their physical;;uid iiiteiieetual well 'being. '": "" :■'. r : \''^^';y- : /--- : r X':^'^' 2. That this nie'.-tin'i' considers that ample: time allbw'ed' for.'• all eiafse^";:tp make: their neeessa:ry p'urchases on Saturdays 1 were ths various,establishments cldsed.at 9 o'clock p.m. at latest, instead of 10:or;ll, ! as' at present; and that "on;.other iof :"the week six o'clock: p. m..is a'sufficiently late; audiirges upon employers the- reason-* ableness■:-of shortening to : tliis; extent hours of labor of ■ their employes: ■ *'■.;. , ).. , 3.. TJpfrie: cities ear]y ; cdbsihg:is "becoming?ti rule, v;isl;of;:::opihipn: fthst:. there.;,.gaa';;:-.h'e>;iib/ : serious ; of snijp. assistants; as: to ; ; pf ■ shop-assistants ■. '£'" Ai. ;That^ithis, meeting;further the 'general public to support the: movement

for earlier closing, by abstaining from shopping after 9 p.m. on Saturdays, and 6 p.m. on other days of the week. Sonic other matters of detail having been arranged, the meeting closed.