LABOUR DAY.
The Dominion of New Zealand is suffering .from an overdose of eccentricity in regard to the observance of its holidays. A few weeks back Arbor Day was observed .by Banks, public offices, and schools for no apparentreason other than to gratify the fantastic whim of legislators who presumed that people were going to devote themselves to arboriculture—which they unanimously refrained from doing. To-day we are blessed with an anomaly in the shape of a Labour. Day, when everybody works, excepting those who are absolved from doing so by an Arbitration Court award. It is a miserable, half-hearted sort of "thing which should be given the happy despatch with a few other nonsensical creations of a Government which is not- . . :ous [<;;• its eccentricities.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10457, 23 October 1911, Page 4
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124LABOUR DAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10457, 23 October 1911, Page 4
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