THE FACTORIES' ACT.
QUESTION OF HALF-HOLIDAY
By Telegraph—Press Association. GORE, April 26. A meeting of Gore retailers forwarded a protest to the Minister of Labour against the proposed change of the half-holiday in the work-rooms attached to retail premises to Saturday, and asking that the present arrangement be allowed to continue. Mr Millar replied: "I regret that I cannot do as requested, as the Factories' Act provides that Saturday shall be observed as. the holiday, and as 1 have to administer the law, not to make it, I have no option but to insist on the law being observed, leaving Parliament, who made the law, to alter it if it thinks fit." - By Telegraph —Press Association. INVERCARGILL, April 26. The Southland Employers' Association has decided to hold a big meeting of protest on Monday night against any alteration in the present system of observing Wednesday as a half-holiday for shops and factories. It is proposed also to have a petition and protest signed. <
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8411, 27 April 1907, Page 5
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171THE FACTORIES' ACT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8411, 27 April 1907, Page 5
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