Sir Robert Stout Scholarship.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1938, Page 6

Sir Robert Stout Scholarship.

The Sir Robert Stout Scholarship for 1938 was awarded to R. L. Meek, senior scholar in contracts and torts, by the council of Victoria University College, Wellington, last night, on the recommendation of the professorial board. Saturday Closing. The hope that the day would come when all shops and factories, including hotels, would be closed on Saturdays was expressed by the Minister of Labour, Hon H. T. Armstrong, in an address at the annual conference of the Labour Party. Mr Armstrong’s statement, the party’s official organ reports, was received with applause by the delegates. Mr Armstrong said he knew there was a certain amount of dissatisfaction because everyone was not enjoying the 40-hour week. He wanted to see it applied generally, and he wanted to see Saturday work eliminated as far as was humanly possible. “I hope to see the day when the shops and the factories will be closed on Saturday, including the bally old hotels for that matter,” he declared. The report of the industrial committee, which stated that a move for a universal Saturday half-holiday could not be supported as it was impracticable, was adopted by the conference.