EARLY CLOSING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 120, 13 July 1911, Page 5

EARLY CLOSING.

SMALL CiIOCKRS PROTEST. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, July 12. A deputation of small grocers waited on Mr Millar and complained of the action of grocers in a largo way of business endeavouring to have, shops closed at G p.m. 1 The donation declared that many of them signed the requisition owing to misrepresentation ,and urged that if such an early hour was fixed most of the small grocers would bo compelled to go out of business. The Minister replied that if the majority of those in the trade signed a requisition asking for certain hours to Iso fixed he had no option but to gazette it. A question also arose as to the position of the Chinese, many of whom had signed a counter requisition to that promulgated by the largo simpkeepers. Mr Millar stated that a Chinese had no right to, sign a requisition as a grocer unless grocery was their particular trade. However, he would make full inanities into the position.