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23
Wearing apparel
364
Household linen
9
Curtains & furniture hangings
3
Artificial flowers
11
Paper bags
4
Cardboard boxes
35
Brushes
4
Feather sorting
1
Boxing, carding of buttons
7
Christmas crackers & stockings
17
Weaving of any textile fabric
1
Lampshades
5
461
164 visits were made during 1959 to outworkers' premises. No contraventions were
reported.
Shops
1,678 shops have been inspected; prescribed notices, records of employment, etc., have
been examined and the necessary information obtained for keeping an up-to-date register of shops
in the Borough.
During the year the following contraventions were noted: -
Section 17(2) Assistants weekly half holiday notice not affixed
in the shop 102
Section 32(2) Record of hours of employment of young persons not
being maintained 23
Section 32(3) Abstract of regulations relating to employment of young
persons not exhibited 16
Section 37(2) Notice re: seats for females not exhibited 76
Weekly Half Holiday
The following contraventions were noted:Section
1(1) Shops not closed at 1.00 p.m. 4
Section 1(2) Alternative closing notice not displayed 16
Section 13(1) Exempted trade notices not displayed or in
possession of the occupier 26
Legal proceedings were taken in one case where sales took place on the weekly half
holiday. The other cases were dealt with by warning letters or informal notices.
General Closing Hours
Several cases of ladies' hairdressers being open after the permitted hours were noted. In
each case the occupier claimed that work upon the customer had commenced before the closing
hour. Legal advice was taken on this point and it was found that no offence is committed
providing customers enter the premises before the closing hour. Special attention was paid to