HALF-HOLIDAY BUNGLE.
Mr Justice Edwards has granted an injunction, restraining the Returning Officer from taking a poll in Masterton on the question of the statutory half holiday.. lhe ground upon which the injunction has been issued is that the petition demanding thie poll is invalid. We cannot help thinking that the Borough Council, as a body, has blundered badly in failing to take steps to ascertain its legal position. The Council may have sympathised with the Saturday half-holi-day proposal, and we have reason to think that a majority of its members were in favour of the change. But this is no excuse for putting the ratepayers and th;> business people of the town to an expense which might have been avoided had reasonable care been exercised. "We should, ourselves, have been glad to see the half-holiday question go to the electors, so that it might be settled onto and for all. A poll, however, can only be taken in a legal manner, and the Council, if it were composed of business men, would have taken wie proper steps to ascertain its legal position.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 April 1913, Page 4
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183HALF-HOLIDAY BUNGLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 April 1913, Page 4
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