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THE HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

We think that considering all the circumstances the Half-holiday Conference, held yesterday, did right in making no alteration for the present. It _eeh_s tolerably certain that the Legislature will deal with the subject next session, and in the meantime it is better to leave undisturbed an arrangement which, df not theoretically perfect, has at all events worked fairly well in the past. The petition presented to the Conference in favour of the Thursday half-holiday, containing, it was stated, 20,000 signatures, showed that whatever may be the advantages of a universal Saturday half-holiday, there is a large section of the publio.who do not want to be deprived of their Saturday night's shopping. We presume that the conflict will now be transferred to Parliament. There are obvious difficulties in making a uni* versal half-holiday all over the colony independently of the wants or needs of the several localities. If Parliament should decide to continue the plan of allowing each dfatrict to decide the matter for itself, it would be well, we think, to make the Conferences triennial instead of yearly. A good deal of feeling is evoked by the agitation on both Bides, and once in three years is quite often enough to raise _n issue of this kind, which, however it is settled, necessarily excites a good deal of dissatisfaction and annoyance.

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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11488, 22 January 1903, Page 4

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THE HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11488, 22 January 1903, Page 4

THE HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11488, 22 January 1903, Page 4

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