NO NIGHT SHOPPING IN BRISBANE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1680, 1 March 1917, Page 2

NO NIGHT SHOPPING IN BRISBANE.

ANOTHER reform dial may ho described as almost a minor revolution in our industrial ami social life is to lie effected in Brisbane at the beginning of April, when night shopping' is to cease, writes a correspondent. For some years the shop assistants there have been rising (heir best endeavours to have the Friday night work abolished. At first the employers as a body were not favourable to the idea of abolition, though many of them favoured the eight-hour principle; but the board that has given the award for the abolition of Friday night shopping is composed of.representatives of both employers and employees, so that we must lake it that now the employers are agreeable to the change. Most of us remember a time when every night was shopping night, and then when Saturday night only was shopping night. The public had got into the habit of doing its business on that night, and the change to Friday night caused some commotion. The public, as in the case of (i o'clock closing and the many other reforms that have been introduced during the past few years, will no doubt soon accustom itself to the new order of things, though it may miss the brilliancy of a Saturday night in the streets, and though the change may result in a smaller circulation of money, the employers have made a concession to the employees. The general public, which is the final arbiter, will soon show whether it approves or not.