SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT
COMMITTEE AT ROTORUA Prom Our Own Correspondent ROTORUA, Today. The committee appointed to investigate the Shops and Offices Act, heard evidence in Rotorua on Thursday from tradesmen. Mr. C. H. Clinkard, M.P., acted as chairman in place of the Hon. A. J. Murdoch, who is in Wellington. Representations were made for the retention of the present statutory provision enabling shopkeepers in each trade to arrange the closing hours for their shops by a requisition of a majority in the trade, and allowing each district to select the half-holiday best suited to its needs. Retail traders expressed themselves as definitely opposed to a universal half-holiday and universal closinghours, fixed by legislation for the whole Dominion.
Restaurant and tearoom proprietors asked that they be allowed to sell cakes, sandwiches, etc., to picnic parties and motorists on Sundays for consumption off the premises. Other requests were for exemption from closing of shops on Easter Saturday, and for the compulsory closing m lieu thereof on St. Patrick’s Day. Retail traders also that where an award by prohibiting a shopkeeper from employing his assistants on a public holiday made it impossible- for him to keep his shop open, all other shops should be required to be closed bn the same day.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 6
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