HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 5 April 1913, Page 5

HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

OPPOSITION TO SATURDAY. r.v. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, April 4. A meeting of Wellington shopkeepers to-night carried a resolution expressing the «trong opinion that the present clause in the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1908, allowing 10 per cent, of the electors of any combined district to petition the local authority to take a poll to determine the weekly half-holiday for shops, is harassing and against the best interests of the shop-keeping community, and asking Parliament to delete such clause from the Act, or, failing such amendment, that a clause be inserted compelling such signatories to fill in their full names, occupations, and addresses, so that the returning officer may more easily ascertain if such petitioners are on the roll, and that all such petitions shall he deposited at the various municipal offices for signature. The meeting subscribed £7O in the room to fight against the Saturday haft-holiday proposal.