LONG WEEK-END IN NEW ZEALAND
COMMENT BY SCOTTISH MASTER PRINTER (P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 16. One feature of the 40-hour Aveek in Nbav Zealand Avhich Dr. William MaxAvell, LL.D., of Edinburgh, honorary president of the Federation of Master Printers cannot understand, is the insistence of Ncav Zealanders on stopping Avork on Friday nights for the long week-end.
Dr. MaxAvell, who will return next Aveek after 10 Aveeks’ holiday here, said that printers in Scotland Avorked three hours and a half every Saturday morning “not because avg want them to. We don’t. We Avould rather they Avorked a bit longer on Friday and did no work on Saturday, but they insist.”
Dr. MaxAvell said that a “man is afraid his wife Avill make him scrub the floors if he has Saturday mornings at home. His wife does not want him mucking about the house, and the girls in the trade don’t want’ to stay home in case they get liouseAvork or have to mind the baby.” “Labour in the printing trade is as short in Britain as in-NeAV Zealand,” he said. “I have 51 printing machines and 15 of them are idle for lack of labour.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19500317.2.51
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 130, 17 March 1950, Page 4
Word Count
194LONG WEEK-END IN NEW ZEALAND Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 130, 17 March 1950, Page 4
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.