Weekly Half-holiday.
By 'Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, last night. Tin"* morning a large deputation of employers representing all trades affected by Ve Factories Acts waited upon Sir J. Ward respecting a weekly half-holiday for employes. Under the legislation Saturday is made a compulsory halholiday in factories and workrooms, lho shop half-holiday as faxed by the local bodies in Invercargill is Wednesday. Owing to the conflict, certain classes of employes arc compulsorily absent from tho shops on Saturday, when factoryworkers, in which tailors, dressmakers, etc., are included, are absent, and consequently not in their to ht garments or make necessary alterations. It was urged that the half-holiday tor shops and factories should be simultaneous, lho deputation unanimously favored Wednesday. The question of payment of wages to young persons on a lived was also y mentioned. Sir J. Ward saia he would convey their representations to the ‘Premier as Minister for Labor. Ho regretted the difficulty, and perceived it fmse from a conflict of the authorities whose duty it was to administer the Acts.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 290, 14 December 1901, Page 3
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