SHOPS AND OFFICES BILL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7932, 22 September 1905, Page 3

SHOPS AND OFFICES BILL

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 21. A deputwMH>u< representing the Wellington Shop AsHMants' Association, vftftitl upon Mr Arnold, Chairman ol the Labour Bills Committee of the House, to tbank htm. on behalf of tho shop assistants, tor his * efforts in connection* with tho Shops and Offices Bill. Mr ArnoW returned thanks briefly .■ He said that twelve months previously very little attention had been paid to early closing, the discussion $CTng Confined to shop assistants' hours. Since then the attention of Parliament and of the country had liwn directed to the yjJestiori of early Closing, and tho general opinion was ihat long hours wro not desirable Irom any pomt of view. To avoid ghem, legislation in tho direction of early closing was necessary. The Bill, as it had left tho House, was aotirdy in favcur of the small employer as against the shopkeeinr "who employed labour, and that mast 'teU agonist tiro i employee. That <nas regret taWe, since the ppiplcycr ind employees should' work together, and lie hoped the Council iwouhl introduce amendments that would make the Bill moro acceptable to all classes. In the following session bo.intended, if a member, to himself introduce an Early Closing pill, with the object' of testmg tt» (eeliog of the new House.