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Two dumb parochial Bills on Easter Sunday trading and street prostitution - by frog
In the last Member’s Bill ballot, National backbencher Jacqui Dean’s Member’s Bill, the Shop Trading Hours Repeal (Waitaki Easter Trading) Bill was drawn. It is the reincarnation of 8 previous failed and mainly parochial attempts to address Easter Sunday trading. Now we’re getting another parochial and flawed Bill – the Manukau City Council (Regulation of Prostitution in Specified Places) Bill – courtesy of Labour MP George Hawkins. read moreAugust 23, 2010 6:21 pm - 80 Comments -
Oh dear, here we go again - by frog
Here’s an idea. Instead of attempting to fiddle around with the rules about whether and where shops can open on Easter Sunday, let’s make it a public holiday so those employees who are already required to work on Easter Sunday can at least get a day in lieu that they can spend with their families. read moreNovember 20, 2009 3:06 pm - 22 Comments
