HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1921, Page 5

HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

EXEMPTIONS FROM AWARDS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Judge Frazer, in the Arbitration Court, has given a decision in the matter of the application of certain hairdressers for exemptions from the closing clauses of the hairdressers’ award. The Court was of opinion that the forcing of the closing hours on at least two occupiers would inflict undue hardship, and exemption therefore was granted in the case of Lawrence 'Tierney, hairdresser, of Avondale, on condition that he closed his shop at 1 p.m. on one afternoon in the week, and also in the case of Alfred Robin, hairdresser, of Takapuna, on condition that he closed his shop on each Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. There were a number of other applications for exemption, but the Court was not satisfied that there was undue hardship in the cases of the other applicants. They were carrying on business in the city and the immediate suburbs, and any hardship suffered by them was due to the inevitable temporary dislocation which follows any change, and which was shared in by all persons engaged in the business. The Court was satisfied that the granting of exemptions to the two applicants above named was necessary in order to : enable them to retain their own local trade, and would not bring them into competition on unfair terms with hairdressers in other parts of the city and suburban area.