PAPERSPAST

ndignant Wellington.

Seddon On Defensive^

A Test Case

To Fiend Out

What The Act Meant

Ye Gods !

(Per Press Association.)

Wellington, Last Night. Meetings were held to-day and to-night to protest against the early closing clauses of the Shops and Offices Act.

The proceedings were somewhat noisy.

The Premier attendpd both meetings, which carried resolutions demanding the suspension of tho Act, and protesting against its passage in tho dying hours of the session.

Mr Soddon, in his speech, indicated that there were discrepancies in the Act, and said a tost case should be taken to determine what the Act meant.

[Mr Seddon sent 6000 words of " explanation " over the New Zealand wires last night at the public expense. We were obliged to refuse the message owing to the lateness of the hour.]

Pāwhiri ki konei kia kitea tēnei tuhinga ā-nūpepa

He mea mahi aunoa e te rorohiko tēnei tuhinga. Kāore anō kia tirohia, kia whakatikangia rānei, he hapa pea o roto. Ka taea te tirotiro i te hōputu taketake, te pānui rānei i te whārangi katoa.

Mō te tuhinga nā te rorohiko i hanga

Ko te OCR he tukanga hei tiki aunoa i te tuhinga mai i te whārangi kua karapahia. Mā te OCR e taea ai te rapu i te nui o ngā raraunga tuhinga-katoa, ēngari kāore i te tika katoa ki te 100%. Ko tōna tika mai i te kounga o te tuhinga ki te niupepa tūturu me tōna āhua i te whakakiriata moroititanga. Kāore pea e pai te OCR o te niupepa kāore te kounga o te pepa e pai, he iti rawa rānei te tuhituhinga, he maha rawa ngā momotuhi, ngā whakatakotoranga tīwae hoki, he whārangi kua tūkinotia rānei.

Ko te tōtika OCR kei te whārangi e kitea ai tēnei tūemi he 97.58%.