EARLY CLOSING.
(to the editor,) . - Sir,—l notice in your, valuable paper of Tuesday evening a letter on Early Closing. Now, Sir, why do they keep open night after night when all the business could be done by T or 8 p.m. without any inconvenience to customers, Tliey would soon learn that shops were closed at a. certain hour, then they would cndeayor to do their shopping' before 7 or 8, and the assistants would have a little timo for reoreation, At present it is business first thing in the morning until 9 oi 10 every night, If the drapers would
only agree among themselves to close, they would bo gainer3,to'thom3elves-gainera in having better health; ■. .
-Why. sir, looking at Wellington and evett the smaller towns in thocuontry, they close at6,o'clook,andwhy not a town like this; where the shopping could easily be done, without putting customers to any trouble, and would be conferring a great boon on all the drapers of Masterton. ~ I am, &a., One willing to close at 7 or 8, (Saturdays EXCEPTS])), '
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1726, 3 July 1884, Page 2
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173EARLY CLOSING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1726, 3 July 1884, Page 2
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