CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS
A largely attended meeting of shopkeepers covered by the shop assistants* award was held in the Employers' Association rooms yesterday. Mr. W. Simm, president of the ■ Wellington Ketail Drapers. Mercers and Clothiers' Association, was voted to the chair. Consideration was given to the proposal that all retail shops should closo for the whole day on the Saturdays afle\ Christmas and New Year's Day, this giving workers on both occasions four ce-oseiutivo days' relief from business. Tho proposal was exhaustively discussed and was ultimately unanimously carried. The shops affected by the re-olu-liou are retail drapers, boot retailers, stationers, fancy goods dealers, glass and china merchants and ironmongers. The effect will be thai from Wednesday evening until Monday morning in Christmas and New Year' weeks these trades will be completely closed down. Ailvan f ,i?o was taken of the representative attendance to consider the advisability of forming a United ll.tailers' Association. A strong committee was set up to prepare for submission to a future meeting a schemo for the formation of such an association. Those present enthusiastically favoured tho idea,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 36, 6 November 1919, Page 6
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183CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 36, 6 November 1919, Page 6
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