SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY
Per Press Association. Nelson, April 8. A meeting of shopkeepers opposed to the Saturday half holiday was held last night. A reply was received from the Minister of Labour, that no alteration in the day could be made till next year. After a long discusison the following motion was carried by i 8 to 2;—“That this meeting agrees that owing to Government refusing the request of shopkeepers to alter the statutory half holiday to Wednesday, a thorough canvass of the town be made for signatures of shopkeepers willing to close on Wednesday, and open on Saturdays, and if the ma-. jority agree, the alteration take place from the 22nd April, with the object of testing the law.”
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9116, 8 April 1908, Page 5
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120SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9116, 8 April 1908, Page 5
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