WEEKLY HALF-HOLIDAY.
PETITION TO THE MINISTER OF ' LABOUR.
The following petition is being signed by business people in Masterton, and is to be forwarded to the Minister of Labour through Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R.:— We, the undersigned business people of Masterton, have received notice that the provisions of the Factories Act in legard to the weekly half-holiday must' be strictly observed as from May Gth next, and would respectfully draw your attention to the following facts:—(l) That many businesses in the country towns employ hands partly at making up and repairing and partly as counter hands, there not being sufficientwork in either department to keep'the hands fully employed. (2) It4ias been the custom hitherto to observe the statutory half-holiday as regards these hands. (3) The majority of the employees themselves prefer to have the statutory holiday, when their friends are also offjduty. (4) The present arrangement has been found to work satisfactorily in the past, and although the letter of the Act has been broken, the spirit has been adhered to. (5) It will cause great inconvenience in many businesses to be obliged to give some, of their hands a holiday on one day and others on another, and it will also necessitate proprietors being present on both days, thus breaking the spirit of the Act and allowing the proprietors no holiday at all. (6) There are a large number of farmers and their families who only come into town on Saturday afternoons (marketvday), and it will cause them great inconvenience and disappointment not to be able to get their requirements attended to on]the only day on which they arc able to do their shopping.
We therefore request that the weekly half-holiday i:i the country districts may bj observed as heretofore, and that business people may have the option of closing the portion of their business coming under the Factories Act on the statutory holiday for the district instead of the day prescribed by the Act.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8412, 30 April 1907, Page 6
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327WEEKLY HALF-HOLIDAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8412, 30 April 1907, Page 6
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