“SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 2

“SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

OFFICIALLY OPPOSED BY COUNTY COUNCIL. The re-opening of the Saturday halfholiday question by the Prime Minister Avas mentioned at the annual meeting of the Levin Chamber of Commerce on Friday' night, but consideration of the subject was deferred until a future meeting of the Chamber. < At the meeting of the HoroAVheim i County- Council on Saturday, Or. Giiilblett said he had noticed that a protest was to be made at a meeting in Levin against the likelihood of the Government declaring a universal half-holi-day. He moved that this Council protest against the proposed inauguration of a universal half-holiday.-The Chairman (Mr G. A. Monk) remarked that the Government’s idea was to take a poll on the question of the Saturday half-holiday. Cr. Gimblett: The Prime. Minister said openly that he was in favour of it. '

Cr. Colquhoun seconded the motion. He thought that a Saturday half-holiday wq.s bad for the towns. The Chairman: The fear is that the employee in the Dominion can outvote the employer. .We in the country prefer the shops to be open on Saturday afternoons for our convenience. Probably if a poll Avere taken, the towns are so strong that they would carry the day and Ave Avould have a universal halfholiday. Cr. Ryder: It is a detriment to the small 'town and to the country.

The Chairman,: If you could not trade in Le\-in, you could not trade, in Palmerston, under a universal half-holi-day. Saturday afternoon open suits us very Avell. < Cr. Ryder: It suits the country people and the small town. The Chairman: It does not suit the big towns. Cr. Gimblett: They tell us what time to get up in the morning. They will presently' tell us Avhat time to go to bed. They will tell us yet when we are going to die. Cr. Ryder: We feed them all; there is no getting away from that. The motion Avas carried unanimously.