LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 79, 31 October 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hotel, Club,' and Restaurant Workers' Union in Adelaide, South Australia, by Wages Board award, has been given a 48-hour week in place of the 56 hours previously obtaining. Adelaide is probably the first place in Australasia to obtain this concession. . With the dying hours of to-day, the Stratford Electrical Supply Company go out of business and to-morrow avi 11 mark an epoch in the history o£ the Borough, which will henceforward (and, forever, perhaps) retail its own light to the residents. As an enterprise municipally, the change is far from being a novel one, and in making the change Stratford is only taking a place in the ranks alongside thousands of other similarly-situated municipalities throughout the world. No one appears to be worrying about the milestone in our history, however, as not even a newspaper correspondent. has come out of his, or her, shell to mention the fact. It may be, though, that there has been so much said and written about the negotiations to the transfer and purchase that all are heartily glad to see the end of such a fruitful cause for discussion. The event might have been, in the old days, made the occasion of a social glass among the civic fathers, but not under the circumstances. "Tempora mutantur' et nos mutamur in illis."