COUNTY HALF-HOLIDAY.
i WEDNESDAY RETAINED. By Matamata County CounciL Waharoa business people, through the secretary of , the Progress League (Mr. O. Lasenby) requested I the Matamata County Council, in a i letter read at the December meeting, to change the statutory half-holiday in the county from Wednesday to j Thursday. The reasons for the rc- | quest were set out in full in a report published in this paper at the | time, the main point being that Wa- | haroa district people attending the Matamata stock sale on Wednesday (the day of the half-holiday in Waharoa) were obliged to do their shopping in Matamata, where the town district half-holiday is on a Saturday. The council then decided to defer the matter until the January meeting. The question duly came up at the January meeting, held last Friday, at Tirau. Tirau’s Preference. Mr. Frank Rose, representing the business people of Tirau, waited upon the council, asking that Wednesday be retained. The day had been changed before, and resulted in endless confusion among the farming community; even yet there was occasional confusion, and if the day was changed again there would be a great deal of misunderstanding. Thursday being sale day at Tirau, that day would not suit for the halfholiday. Tirau people did not want to injure Waharoa interests, and if Thursday could be g’ven to Waharoa without interfering with Wednesday for Tirau then there would be no objection whatever.
Cr. H. Rollett thougnt Saturday should be the universal half-holiday. The chairman : Saturday halfholiday would not suit our employees, who got off on Saturday, which is their only opportunity to do their shopping. Cr. E. J. Darby : Unless there is some very special reason we should not change. At this stage Cr. S. H. Judd arrived, and as he took his seat he said, with the tone of a man who had thought about a subject and made up his mind thereon: “ I move that Wednesday be retained as the halflu.liday.” Cr. K. S. Cox seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.
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Putaruru Press, 19 January 1928, Page 3
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