SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THB EVENING MAIL. SlK,—Past experience will go to prove that the mode of obtaining a Saturday half-holidav mentioned by you in Friday's issue has been, and will be. a failure The only way that I can see is' for employes to lose the four hours on Saturday. That, I contend, Sir, is far better than infringing on a urand institution—t!v e ; ght-honr system—which the masses of Great Britain would consider no small acquirement, and which they are agitating for now. Let ns watch jealously over it. Many, I have no doubt, will remember the good old rhyme chanted by the workini: classes at Home, but ridiculed by the upper ten thousand Eij;ht hours work, Eight hours play, Eight hour* sleep, Eitrht shillings a day. Yours, &c , Observer. [Our correspondent might lead peopl.to think that we expressed-an- ophi'on ..', the matter. Wo merely stated a fac gleaned from an advertisement. —i-L.. K.M.]
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 784, 16 October 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)
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