REQUEST FOR EXTENSION
HOURS OF WAITRESSES ELEVEN O’CLOCK LIMIT DUNEDIN SUPPER RUSH (Por Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. In view of the Government’s intention to introduce a measure revising the Shops and Offices Act, tea-room, restaurant and milk bar proprietors resolved this morning to seek an extension to 11 p.m. of the hour till which females may be employed. A memorandu for the Minister states that the Act fixing the hour at 10.30 was passed as a war measure during abnormal conditions and was now proving a tremendous handicap to the restaurant industry in these times of quick transportation and craze for evening entertainment, specially in Dunedin, where the public flock to tearooms after visiting picture theatres instead of going, as in other centres, to cabarets and road houses. It is stated that if the hours are not extended, large restaurants will have to close, for this supper trade is an indispensable source of revenue.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19453, 12 October 1937, Page 15
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155REQUEST FOR EXTENSION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19453, 12 October 1937, Page 15
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