CORONATION DAY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 426, 6 May 1937, Page 5

CORONATION DAY

HOLIDAY QUESTION | Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, May 5. In connection with a request previously made by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, that Coronation Day be generally observed as a public holiday, the acting Prime Minister, Hon. p. Fraser, stated to-day that the Gov rnnient hoped employers throughout the Dominion would follow the lead of the Government and local authorities in granting employees a full paid holiday on Coronation ; Day or, where it was not possible to spare them on Coronation Day itself. I give them a holiday on some other I day, or if this was impossible an extra day's day.

! Mr Fnaser addeq that it was felt I that, what was possible on the ocl easion of the silver jubilee two years lago should be po,sd; to-day. The I Coronation was an occasion when the I people of New Ze ala id would, eqar.lily with other members of tht BriLih I Commonwealth of Nations, celebrate iu a fitting manner the crowning of i the King and Queen. The Government I felt that, apart from the carrying ov of essential ervices, Coronation Day should be a holiday shared by all sections of the people.