THE HALF-HOLIDAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1921, Page 5

THE HALF-HOLIDAY.

POSITION IN STRATFORD. SATURDAY TO BE OBSERVED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Slratford, Last Night. - • The position in connection v.’it‘ ; the balf-ljpliday in Stratford was made clear by the town clerk in conversation with the Daily News represefitativr? today. He states that the legal position is that this Borough Council’s resolution fixing Saturday must stand unless reversed by a poll of the burgesses. This cannot‘be done until the last week in April, and therefore the Saturday half-holiday will operate in March. A meeting- of retailers interested in the half-hoiii*#-y <• question was held tonight) Mr. R. I.C White presiding ©ver an attendance of about 40. Mr. L. M. Moss, solicitor, waii present and explained seveta! legal aspects of the matter, but ex^Te- -c ed a doubt as to whether the Boiovgli Council could reverse its decision fixing Saturday as the halfholiday, if a copy of the resolution had already been sent to Wellington to be gazetted. Considerable discussion took place and finally it was decided to continue to canvass for signatures to the petition asking the council to retain the Thursdav half-holiday until a poll was held in April, and further, to circulate another petition requesting the council to order a poll of the burgesses on the question.