SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1921, Page 4

SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

THE SATURDAY MOVEMENT. A Hawera Saturday’ Ira If-holiday delegation attended a public meeting at Eltham on Wednesday evening, and gave those present some useful points in the campaign to make Saturday the half-holi-day for Eltham as well as for the rest of Taranaki. Mr. H Burdekin .quoted the C. M. Ross Company of Palmerston North, who voluntarily closed on Saturday without detriment. He asked why it was that every town that had adopted Saturday had stuck to it? /Mr. L. O. Hooker read a letter from Mr. Fow, Mayor of Hamilton, who said the change to Saturday had not been detrimental, and they had no desire to depart from it. A letter was read from Mr. J. W. McMillan, Mayor of Stratford, and chairman of the provincial Saturday movement, declining to visit Eltham. as he thought the Eltham people might resent it. He said that Stratford had started for Saturday and would retain it. Mr. G. W. Bennett stressed the point that the half-holiday was instituted for the employee. He also referred to the position at Feilding and Palmerston North, and had the assurance of a leading business man in Feilding that that town, which was only 12 miles from Palmerston, would not revert to its former day. Feilding was as typical a farmers’ centre as Eltham. —Star. . THE NEW PLYMOUTH REQUISITIONS. At a meeting of the New Plymouth Sports Committee last night requisitions were received containing the names of over 1200, asking for a poll to be taken on the Saturday half-holiday question. These, with a number of lists yet to come in, will be presented to the Borough Council on Monday evening.