SEASIDE GROCERS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18216, 29 October 1924, Page 8

SEASIDE GROCERS.

HALF-HOLIDAY QUEST J ON. The question of the weekly half-lioli-day to be observed by grocers .in the seaside resorts in the vicinity of Christchurch is again to come before the Court of Arbitration. It will be recalled that on March 27th of the present year the Court of Appeal decided that the Court of Arbitration had no jurisdiction in the matter of altering the day of the week on which the statutory jhalf-holiday should be observed in the districts of Sumner and New Brighton. The parties to the' grocers' award — the Canterbury Grocers' Industrial Union of Employers and the Canterbury Grocers' Industrial Union of Workers—have taken the necessary steps to make application to the Court of Arbitration, during it« forthcoming sittings in Christchurch. commencing or. November 6th, to have the clause in the present award dealing with hours of work for grocers' assistants amended in the direction of providing that all grocers' shops within a radius of ten miles from the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, shall close at 1 p.m. on Saturdavs. The Court is to Be asked, under the powers conferred upon it by tho Shops and Offices Act, to*make an order fixing Saturday as the day in each week on which grocers' shops shall close at 1 p.m.