SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY
MOVEMENT IN WANGANUI. Press Association. WANGANUI. February 17. , An enthusiastic meeting of many of Wanganui’s leading business people to inaugurate a general Saturday half holiday in the combined district of the borough and Gonville township was held to-night. It was unanimously decided to petition the Borough Council to take a poll of electors on the , day of the general election on April SOth in favour of a Saturday statutory half holiday. A strong executive was formed to take tho petition in hand. The opinion is that the movement is gaining favour, and there is a good prospect of tho poll carrying a majority for tho Saturday holiday. The business men present at the meeting were unanimous that tho tramways had generalised trade more during the week and reduced the Saturday night business, drapers and grocers remarking that more business was done in tho mornings by suburbanites being able to reach town by the trams.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8357, 18 February 1913, Page 7
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156SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8357, 18 February 1913, Page 7
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