Sarah Montague, with balloons, at a Shop Employees Union booth during the Union's campaign against Saturday trading, Manners Street, Wellington. Union member, Mrs Elsie Bryan, is on left. Photograph taken in February 1980.
Saturday trading was reintroduced in New Zealand in 1980 for the first time since 1945. In 1990 Sunday trading also became legal.
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