ANNIVERSARY DAY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17017, 14 December 1920, Page 6

ANNIVERSARY DAY.

NON-jOBSERVANCE REGRETTED. Regret that Anniversary Day was not bciny obseiTcd with befitting dignity was expressed at last night's meeting of the )Yaimairi County Council. 'Hie matter! cropp.<l iij) following tho receipt oi' a letter lrom tne Councils employ te; asking that, in view of tlio drivers get>tmg u holiday on that day, they should also g')t it. Cγ. C. E. Cross stated that he hat tiotkei 1 an advcrliscm.-nt in the newspa.pers to tho eit'ect that a, large number of busiuess people were to kcq their premises open. He understooi that this yt-ep liad been taken to enabU the f>reinises to be closed for an extri day at Sew Year tiino lor the hv-neft of shop einploj'eea. Cr. S. A. Staples deprecated tin spirit that seemed to bo manifested a: th.- present time with reference to An ii.ivcrs.iry Day. Some years a -40 An itivcrsary Day was a day of days ii Canterbury, th.; occasion being availet of to hold sports meetings on the day and dances and other jiniusmients a night. As an old scttlei*. ho thought ii a pity to It Anniversary Day jjas , without proper respect being shown ti it. It was decided to request shopkeeper m the county to close on Anniversar Day, and to grant tlio Council's cm ployees a holiday. Bosini; Day ai\( January Ist ami 3rd w re also dc-clara holidays, i-xcopt for those employee whose attendance at work was esscn tial.