THAMES HALF-HOLIDAY
WEDNESDAY OR SATURDAY The petition presented to the R„. ough Council meeting last Thur.dav ,» favour of Saturday afternoon holid.l and signed by eighteen people the council no alternative but to btmthe request, though several expressed themselves in favour of Wed nesday. The supporters of the Wed nesdav movement neglected to lodre a counter-petition, and are now talw of having a poll taken' before the m etting of the statutory half holidTv The Wednesdayites maintain thit more busines will come to Thames if Wednesday is the half day when the bridge connecting the Hauraki Plain, and Thames is opened about the end of March. If the midweek support i, large enough the movers will petition for a poll.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 10
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119THAMES HALF-HOLIDAY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 10
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