AFTER-HOUR TRADING
RETAILERS’ OPPOSITION PROTEST TO PRIME MINISTER (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday A protest against illicit after-hour and Sunday trading was made when representatives of the New Zealand Retail Tobacconists’ and Hairdressers’ Federation, the New Zealand Master Grocers’ Association and other retailers’ organisations met at Wellington to consider combating what was described as a menace to legitimate traders throughout the Dominion. Speakers emphasised that a small shopkeeper who was not. required to pay high rents, wages and other overhead eosts could operate much more cheaply than a retailer in a bigger way and compelled by law to trade within more restricted hours. The meeting objected to dairies and small shops selling croc cries and other lines which could not he sold hv larger shops after cerfa’n hours. \ deputation was appointed to wait on the Prime Minister, the lit. Hon. M. J. Savage. The deputation will urge the justice, urgency and vital necessity of bringing down a bill during the* last session of the present Parliament.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20504, 21 May 1938, Page 9
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