M.P. suggests holiday change
PA Wellington Fickle New Year weather has left the member of Parliament for Rotorua, Mr Paul East, pondering the wisdom of thousands of New Zealanders having their annual holidays in January. He has suggested a short statutory holiday at Christmas and New Year and annual holidays in February and March when, he says, it is hotter.
A lot of rain fell in January — the time when most New Zealanders were on holiday, he said. He told the Bay of Plenty Rugby League Association that once the holiday period was over the weather improved, with higher temperatures
in February and March.
Mr East said there would be other benefits, such as reducing family stress at Christmas and the accompanying financial and matrimonial problems.
It would also mean the end of “the great New Zealand shutdown” which made it difficult to get business done in late December or early January.
The hot weather in February and March would also affect productivity in factories and the concentration of school pupils in classrooms — something he would raise with the Minister of Education, Mr Marshall.
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Press, 11 February 1986, Page 11
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