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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9076, 28 April 1908, Page 4

For the information of the public, we draw attention to the fact that a pill of electors on a proposal "that J the weekly half-holiday provided for by section 33 of the Factories Act shall be allowed in the Borough of Masterton on the same day appointed for shops in the said borough, under the Shops and Offices Act," will be taken to-morrow. The question is a very important one to this community, but evidently the executive officer the'municipality does not consider it so, for the notification was published once only, and that as far back as the 11th instant—sufficiently long ago for the matter to have been entirely forgotten. Maybe this is the beginning of an era of rigid economy with the first month of the new municipal year; but, if so, it startu in.iuspiciously, tor it ia an economy which the ratepayers who happen to miss the poll through insufficant notification will justly re-1

sent. There is no specific provision in the Act for due public notification of a poll, but doubtless Parliament took it for granted that municipal bodies, or their executive officers, would exercise at least commonplace judgment in the matter of enlightening the ratepayers.