The Maaterton Borough Connoil last evening decided to proclaim Thursday afternoon a public holiday under the Factories Act, Apparently this deciuion was arrived at without much .consideration as to the consequences of taking such a step.'No enquiry was made as.to the number of persons who would be affected by theproclamation and no report thereon waa obtained, This new labour login-
lation ia a two edged and we fear that one effect of it, will be to bring do ra the rate of wages in this town.. We.do not saythat thedecision of the Council to proclaim the holiday was wrong, but we do say that no exercise of its powers under a new measure of this kind ought to have been mado, wiihout the fullest enquiry. as to the. number of persons who_ would be affected by the proola* mniion and as to whether it would he likely to prove anadvantbge or a dis» advantage to them. ■
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4282, 23 November 1892, Page 2
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