NO CONFUSION AT ALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9679, 31 December 1909, Page 4

NO CONFUSION AT ALL.

In our issue of yesterday we pointed uut that the business people of Masterton will observe the usual halfholiday on Thursday next. In doing so they will simply be complying with' the law of the land, and they have become so accustomed to observing the weekly half-holiaay that it is very unlikely indeed that anyone whose "business" it is to remember will forget to do so. Had the business people been anxious to observe a whole holiday on Monday they would, no doubt, have made the necessary arrangements, and then, of course, there would have been no half-holiday on Thursday next. As it is, during next week there is no whole holiday provided, either by Statute, or at the request of the Mayor, or local authority, or by any award whatever—hence there is no confusion in the matter at all, and it is rather regrettable that any attempt shojld be made "to muddle up" what h a perfectly plain position. Employers are, of course, at perfect liberty to give their employees an extra holiday during the week if they wish to do so.