LONGER WORKING WEEK
REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT .WARTIME CONDITIONS (Per Press Association.) ASHBURTON, this day. The Ashburton Hospital Board has decided to request the Government that, in view of the war, legislation in regard to the 40-hour week be relaxed, in keeping with the Government’s request that production should be increased.
The chairman, Mr. W. G. Gallagher, in moving the resolution, said he could not see how the Government’s call for more production could be met if it continued to ask one section of the community to work 40 hours and other sections to work 60 to 70 hours in building operations. The Government was giving men large periods of overtime and the country was paying out enormous sums in overtime money.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 14
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