WAIRARAPA EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8105, 27 March 1906, Page 5

WAIRARAPA EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

THE CARI'ERTON SHOW AND MASTiiiKTOH Race meeting. ] RESOLUTION OF HOLIDAYS COMMITTEE. At a meeting of the Holidays Committee of the Wairarapa Employers' Association, held yesterday, a deputation consisting of Messrs C. A. Povvnall and J. Cress, on behalf of the Masterton Racing Club, and Messrs H. F. Bunny, R. Gray and W. Perry, on behalf of the Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society, waited on the Committee in support of a request that a half - holiday should be declared, respectively, on • Wednesday and Thursday, 24th and 25th Ootober next, on account of the Carterton Show and Spring Race Meeting. Messrs Pownall and JBuniiy urged that owing to its being unfortunately impossible to alter either the dates of the Show or Races, they were compelled to ask for an extra half day or to hold the Show or Races on the same day, thus causing a considerable amount of friction. A letter was read from the Carterton Chamber of Commerce, stating that the Chamber had passed a resolution that they would support the proposal to hold half a holiday on both Wednesday and Thursday in Carterton. After the deputation had withdrawn, the Committee passed the following resolution: —"That the request of the deputation be acceded to for this year, on the understanding that the granting of such extra holiday shall not be taken as a precedent." It was agreed that the holidays should be observed from noou,