HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.
WEDNESDAY FOR AUCKLAND. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.'] AUCKLAND, Jan. 30. I The adjourned meeting of the conferonce and delegates from the local bodie.s to discuss the question of the day I for the weekly half-holiday was held to-day. There were about a. hundred interested men thronging the lobby leading to the City Council Chamber. These were the advocates of the Wednesday and Saturday half-holiday respectively, and they had assembled with the idea of placing their views before the conference of delegates from the various partitions, before the meeting. It was shown that 304 master shopkeepers and 1761 shop assistants asked for a Saturday haTf-lioliday, and that 338 master shopkeepers asked' for 'Wednesday half-holiday. After hearing two speakers from each side it was I resolved by a majority vote of delegates to adhere to Wednesday.'
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3437, 31 January 1912, Page 2
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135HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3437, 31 January 1912, Page 2
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