Ohakune shut out of Easter trading tourist exemptions
While some tourist towns are exempt from the Act that governs Easter shop trading hours, Ohakune cannot be one of them. . Ruapehu District marketing manager Bruce Rollinson wrote to the Department of Labour asking that Ohakune be made exempt from the laws that prevent retailers from opening on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, on the grounds that it is a tourist town. "There is no machinery that enables new area exemptions to be obtained," replied the manager of the Labour Inspectorate, M E Feely. "Basically the (Shop
Trading Hours Act Repeal Act 1990) position is that this legislation retained the area exemptions that had been issued under previous statutes but did away with the actual exemption application machinery." "It seems what they are saying is that there will be no more tourist towns in New Zealand," said Mr Rollinson. The Bulletin understands a number of Ohakune shops planned to ignore the law. "Why should we have to abide by a Christian belief if we are not Christians?" said one retailer. Shops that ignore the law ,and open for business face a fine of up to $1000.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 631, 9 April 1996, Page 3
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194Ohakune shut out of Easter trading tourist exemptions Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 631, 9 April 1996, Page 3
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