AUCKLAND SHOPS
NO LATE NIGHT The abolition of Friday late shopping night and the .later closing of shops on six days of the week were unanimously approved at a meeting of mayors and chairmen of local bodies in the Auckland E.P.S. area, convened by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr. J. A. C. Allum. The meeting authorised Mr. Allum to make a formal request to the Minister of National Service, the Hon. R. Semple, in terms of emergency regulations just gazetted, that all local bodies in the area, which includes Waitemata and Manukau Counties.be authorised to fix the closing hours of shops as follows: On five week-days in each week, 6 p.m.; on the day of the weekly half-holiday, 1 p.m., these limitations not to apply to chemists’ shops and eating-places, which at present are open outside ordinary hours. The request regarding the weekly half-holiday was to be made conditional upon the regulations permitting an extension of hours after 12 noon.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20661, 12 January 1942, Page 7
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