APPEAL FOR RELIEF

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 22 November 1939, Page 5

APPEAL FOR RELIEF

SPECTACULAR MOVE HALF-HOLIDAY PLAN BIG HAMILTON MEETING (Per Press Association.) 'HAMILTON, this day. To enable all business men and employees to attend a mass meeting of farming and business interests to urge, the Government to repeal its restrictive legislation and to assist the farmers to a greater degree In their efforts to increase production, all the shops in Hamilton will close for a half-day on December 4. This decision was made yesterday at a meeting in Hamilton of representatives of retailers, employees, the Farmers’ Union, the Associated Motor Trades, the South Auckland Carriers’ Association, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, the Hamilton Master Builders, the Frankton Tobacconists Association, and retailers of Morrinsville. The Mayor of Hamilton, Mr. H. D. Caro, presided over the meeting, which made arrangements for a mass meeting on December 4, when representatives of all the above organisations and other interested sections of the community will attend. Yesterday the meeting adopted a resolution stating: “Seeing that the Government is making paramount the prosecution of the war, with which attitude this meeting is entirely in accord, we feel that this country, to meet its obligation and carry out the principle of ‘pay as we go,’ must follow in the footsteps of Great Britain with ‘business as usual.’ In this direction the Government should give every consideration and assistance to the farmer in helping production and to the trader to secui'e stocks to enable him to assist in supplying the taxation which is necessary,, and to maintain employment.”