The Shops and Offices Bill.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 178, 20 July 1901, Page 3

The Shops and Offices Bill.

Wbdmnoto*, July 12. Au eariy prompt against the Shops and Offices Bill has been made by the bank officials in Wellington. At a meeting tonight of the stuffs of all the banks doing. business in the c ty, resolutions were Unanimously pastel to the eff ct tha 1 : (I) The proposed legr larim would be prejudicial to the interests i-f oil ba-ik officers of the colony. (2) The amount of overwork at night implied in the Bil is mu h exaggerated, and the passage otdhe'Biil would be to the detriment of employe a. (3) The time clauses are unworkable if the demands of the business community are to he met. (4) That if he banka arecompcl.-.d to pay overtime it was reasonable to expect that the. benefits now enjoyed would he discontinued. (5) Timt petitions should be presented to both Houses of Parliament, asking that banas should be exempted from the operation of the Act.

Piit : lions are to bo circulated among ihe-Weliiugtun banks at once, and the co operation of all b.uk officers throughout the colony is to be asked for.

Dunedin, July 15. The Hem. 0- H. Mills, replying to a d- pu'.ation of 'local warehousemen in opposition to their being brought under the Shop and Offices Bill, said he would represent the views’ of the objectors to his colleagues. H- was vary pleased to hod such p'easmt relations between the emplny-es and ( mployers in Dunedin. It would be unwi e to disturb-such relations while t he present amicable understanding existed Only those who had tender corns could btr/e exactly whe-e it pinched, and doubtless the meamre would be modified (o a certain extent during its passage through'tho House, it, would often be fCcnd that Bills proposed a little m i’S than was actually required, but this was necessary to catch delinquents. - Ibis Bill would nut be made p ejalicial 10 thos;* who worked in narimmy, nor was it intended to cause any friction among the trade.