THREE XMAS EVES!

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 235, 23 December 1927, Page 9

THREE XMAS EVES!

CELEBRATION TO-NIGHT

NO TRAFFIC IN QUEEN STREET

AUCKLAND SHUTS UP SHOP Holidays being particularly plentiful this year there are to be no fewer than three Christmas Eves. This evening the time-honoured “late night” of the shops is to be kept, and though the times of midnight closing are past, the shutters will not go up until 10 p.m. All vehicular traffic including trams is to b© stopped from entering Queen Street between Customs Street and Wellesley Streets from 7 p.m. to 10 o’clock and so the shoppers will be abl© to make the final assault on the shops without the hindrance of cars. Saturday night is the genuine calendar Christmas Eve, whereupon the mistletoe should fulfill its function and the stockings be filled by tip-toeing fathers. But as Monday is the official Christmas Bay holiday, the revellers are entirely within their rights in keeping up the celebration until Tuesday. There is every possibility of a merry Christmas! LONG HOLIDAYS Housewives will have to double the supplies these holidays. To-morrow will be observed as the Saturday halfholiday; butchers will close at 12 noon; drapers at 12.15 and grocers at 12.30, and care-free employees will not roll up their sleeves again until Wednesday morning. New Year’s Bay will be a shop holiday. On the following Monday the shops will close from the Saturday to the Wednesday again. Bread will not be delivered on December 26 or 27, or on January 2 and 3, because it is an offence under the bakers’ award to bake or deliver bread on public holidays. Law offices and architects will put up their shutters from this evening until Tuesday, January 10. Surveyors will reopen again on Wednesday, January 4, and accountants on January 9. Warehouses and will close from noon to-morrow until the morning of Wednesday, January 4. City banks will have the vaults locked and the ledgers closed until next Thursday, Wednesday being a special holiday. In the New Year week, however, they will reopen on the Wednesday. Sawmillers’ factories will be shut until January 4. The Harbour Board’s office will be closed on Becember 26 and 27, and on January 2 and 3. It will be open on Becember 28 and January 4 for the transaction of urgent business only. The wharves will be closed on the same dates as the office.

The last call on the Auckland Stock Exchange was made last evening, and the exchange will not reopen until Monday, January 9.