The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895. A DILEMMA.
Our attention has been drawn to the fact that country storekeepers have been placed in an awkward position by the Shops and Shop Assistants Act. The Act provides that all shops at which any person is employed must be closed on one half-day in each week. Now, numbers of country stores are also post and telegraph offices, and the position is that a country storekeeper, who is also postmaster, is compelled by law to keep his premises open for the delivery of mails and post office business, while, at the same time, he is compelled, under fear of a penalty of £o, to close his store at 1 o'clock on one day in each week. Whatever is done the law will be broken, and the question is : What is he to do ? No storekeeper could kepp his shop open for delivery of mails only and refuse to supply a customer, for if he did the probabilities are that he would give offence and thus injure his business.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 163, 9 January 1895, Page 2
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182The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895. A DILEMMA. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 163, 9 January 1895, Page 2
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