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WELLINGTON PETITION PROBABLY INVALID. . b (Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 2S. Yesterday a petition was lodged with the Town Cierk requesting that a j oil be taken on the question of determining the day for the statutory weekly -;i half-holiday in the Wellington district. | The names attached total about 2900, i and it is a question now whether "his number includes at least one-tenth <>fU ¥ the municipal electors for the combined jT district. No more signatures can be 1! added, because the time for filing the ? petition is closed. The promoters, o wdiose purpose is to secure the Satur- d day half-holiday, urge that the assesssn At about the signatures should bo j made on the basis of the names actually . on the roll at the time when the peti- j tion was sent in. However, oven if i this plea is granted, it is questionable j whether the required tenth has been j obtained. Last year lit© mun'jpa£ roll for Greater Wellington alone ran - to over '23,000 names. It is bcl'eved. 1 that the list for the combined dutriefcmust now' be somewhere near 3J,000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2462, 29 March 1909, Page 5
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186SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2462, 29 March 1909, Page 5
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