BRITISH POLITICS
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A SHOPS BILL
READ A THIRD TIME
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
LONDON, December 9
In the House of Commons, the Shops Bill was read a third time. The Bill ensures forty-fivt minutes for the mid-day meal, thirty minutes for tea, and a half holiday weekly. Owing to the exigencies of the session, the controversal clauses of th'.> Bill, including compulsory Sunday closing and limiting the working hours to sixty per week, were dropped.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10499, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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85BRITISH POLITICS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10499, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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