TRADE RESTRICTIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 981, 26 May 1930, Page 1

TRADE RESTRICTIONS

PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY RESUMED THIS MORNING The Auckland sittings of the special committee appointed by Parliament to investigate the working of the Shops and Offices Act was continued at the Chamber of Commerce' rooms this morning, Mr. A. J. Murdoch, M.P., presiding. The local florists repeated the requests made by florists in Southern centres, namely, the compulsory closing of florists shops at 6 p.m. on ordinary days, 9 p.m. on late nights and 5 p.m. on Saturdays. The florists asked that no person should be allowed to sell flowers after their closing hours and that all sellers of flowers be subject to licences which might be endorsed or cancelled on conviction for after-hour trading. The seedsmen supported the florists requests and asked for similar restrictions on fruiterers and others selling seeds and plants as a side-line. Those milk vendors, who are employers of labour asked that the provisions of the Act prohibiting employment of roundsmen before 3 a.m., be struck out to enable them to compete with non-employers of labour. The sitting adjourned for luncheon at 1 o’clock, and resumed at 2.30 o’clock this afternoon. The committee expects to conclude its Auckland sittings tomorrow.