Holiday Shopping Hours In Levin

Chronicle (Levin), 21 December 1948, Page 4

Holiday Shopping Hours In Levin

— — - — - — — % 'The Christmas and New Year holidays will provide many houseWifes with a headache when they endeavour to plan food for their families over the four days. Given Ibel'ow Are the closing times of shpps in Levin, . together with the ' various 'holidays Which * Will be observed. Butchers' shops will close at 4.30, p.m. on Friday, December 24, and rebpen on Wednesday, December 29. For the New Year weekend, the sahie times will be obseiwed. • Grocers' shops will vary their closing hours. Some. -will shut at 8.30 p.m. pn Christmas Eve and others at 9.30 p.m. They will be closed from Christmas Eve ' until Wednesday moming. On New Year's Eve they will be closed at 8.30 p..m. and not reopen until Wednesday mornirig. I Chemists' shops will close at 10 p.m. on Christmas EVe and will be open on Saturday, Sunday, Mon.day and Tuesday between 7 Aird 8 p.m. ' From Wednesday until Friday, the norma! hours will be adhered to, after which. they will r-emain open until 8.30 on New Year's EVe and open from 7-8 p.m. on the following four days. Drapers, clothiers, dressmakers, hiilliners, boot retailers, furniture shops, fancy goods dealers, stationers, booksellers, jewellers, crockery shops and hardware shops Will close at hpurs varying between 9 and 10 p.m., on- Christmas Eve. They will observe the four days' holiday at Christmas and New Year: !, Fruiterers Will cloSe late on Friday night and will remain closed until Wednesday morning, December 29. The usual hours will be observed on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, closing again until Wednesday mornirig, ^anuary 5. | ' Milk bars may observp Sunday ■hours On Christmas Day and are eri'titled to be open throughout the whole of the holiday period. They will close about 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve. ' ! cohfectioners and dairy, produce sellers may open their 'shops as usual, except for Christmas Day, which must be observed as a Sunday. Hairdressers' and tobacconists' shops will close about 8.30 p.m. on Christmas Eve and will -reopen on Wednesday morning. On New .Year's Eve, shops will close at 9.3G p.m. for a further four days. In .the main, ladies" hairdressers will ; observe the same hours. , | Bread sellers will remain open i until 9.30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. ! As mentioned above, confectioners and dairy produce sellers are permitted r to open their ' shops v on Monday (and Tuesday and if ariy bread was left over from Friday's saies, it would be on sale in the particular shops which come within that category. However, it wasopointed out by one bread retailer that there was very little likelihood of any bread being left over from the Friday's saies. The same times would obtain on New ■ Year's Eve.. .