TWO LATE WIGHTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 15

TWO LATE WIGHTS

SHOPPING IN HASTINGS HALF-PAY VARIANCE SECTION MAKING CHANGE (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. Hastings is to have two late .shopping nights each week. This will he the result, ot a division of opinion on the half-holiday question. Those favouring Saturday closing have secured the signatures of 161 retailers who are prepared to change the day of closing. Oh the other hand, many other retailers, including most of the largo stores, have indicated the intention of adhering to the present half-holiday, Thursday, which was retained as the result of a poll taken some two years

Those who desire to do so may, by application to the Labour Department, have their day of closing altered to Saturday. By this process, those who desire to close on Saturday have brought about a change so fat as their own businesses are concerned. The stage is now set for a trial of strength between the two groups. If the buying public shows a disposition to continue to do its principal shopping on Saturday nights, then those businesses that'open on Friday nights will suiier in comparison. If, however, there is a swing over in favour of Fridaynight shopping, then those businesses adhering to tho custom hitherto existing will be faced with the necessity of revising their policy