FIVE-DAY WEEK

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 189, 9 May 1944, Page 4

FIVE-DAY WEEK

Retail Businesses In Auckland CHANGE EXPECTED IN JULY (By Telegraph.— Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 8. A five-day week in respect of many retail establishments is expected to come into force in the Auckland metropolitan area on July 1. A late shopping night will therefore be observed on Friday, June 30, mid the last, day on which the trades concerned will remain open on Saturday morning is June 24. The inauguration of the new order will first, require the revoking of the existing Regulations made in January, 1942, governing the closing hours of shops on lute nights. The businesses concerned arc grocers, drapers and allied trades, including retail footwear, and furnishing stores. Chief opposition to the new order has concerned (lie grocers, but the restoration of the late shopping night, shopkeepers and their assistants consider, will meet these objections. The position regarding chemists’ shops is still not determined. On the one hand it has been claimed that it is essential for the convenience and health of the publie that dispensing facilities should be available on Saturday morning. On the other hand, it is represented by the assistants that additional staffing of the late night pharmacies on a roster basis would make the same service available by the attendance of each qualified dispenser in the city on one Saturday of the year.