Trading Hours in Cook Is.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
RARATONGA, February 2.
A MOTION to close all retail stores at 4 p.m. was put forward at the last meeting of the Island Council, by Mr.
Bert Shearman, trader, and the only European member of the Council.
Previously, there have been no legal opening and closing hours; teashops do ing business at early as 5 a.m. and stores opening at 7 a.m., and the main stores closing at 4 p.m. If this new motion is adopted, the small retail stores will be affected, as two-thirds of their trade is done after 4 p.m., when the plantation workers return from the hills. There are about 30 of these small business men, who are doing their best to fight the movement. It appears that a special licence, for trading up to 9 p.m., would meet the case.