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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 481, 14 April 1909, Page 7

"Lynx writes:—The municipal offices at the Town Hull were closed yesterday. Considering how liberal tho City Council' appears to be in the matter of holidays, anil how little it evidently thinks of the inconvenience to which the. public was put to through closing of the civic oflic.-s, not only yesterday but on Saturday (on both of which days the urea tor part of tho community were at work), tho candidates for tile Mayoralty mirht ' very appropriately be desired to state their view's on tho matter of holidays. The community has dropped into tnc peculiar habit of asking tho Mayor to request citizens to observe halfholidays for inconsequential reasons, ajul when that is done the City Council staff closes its doors and takes itself oil' without a thought for the business that lias to wait until tile morrow, it scvins includible that the niunicipa! oiiic-os of a city like 'Wellington should be elo'Jod fr:«ii Thursday oveniug until the following Wednesday morning at Master. Tho excuse that such concerns as banks ami insurance offices elo so cannot serve, as -liev aro private concerns that are proparal to stand the loss sustained by so closing, but in the ease of municipal offices live days' continuous closing is altogether too long' a noriod.