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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 20, 23 July 1927, Page 8

The Basin Reserve was again flood-' : ed this morning through the burstine of the 12-inch water main supplying . Newt-own and the southern suburbs. As--a consequence, Association niatchc^ ■ which were to have been played there : this afternoon were declared off. Wlienthe pipes was uncovered this morning it was found that four joints had givenl; out, and that the repair would in olj probability extend well into the afterj." noon. >Similar trouble occurred abou^ ■ eighteen months ago, just.prior to an"' important cricket match, but on thal'v occasion it was not necessary to post"; pone the match. Although it was stated by the sec': rotary of the Now Zealand Federation of Shop Assistants that shopl.eepers 7. would be required to observe the old V award and close thoir premises at B.3(p' p.m. yesterday, the shops were not';;! closed until 9 p.m. Judging fr<wa they remarks of several shop assistants, they' ; prefer working until 9 o'clock on Frij^ day night in order that they might;, leave work at 12.30 p.m. on Saturdays]' "The extra half-hour on Friday nights^ makes littlo difference to us," said one's man, "for, in any case, our jiight iiß gone. I prefer the 9 o'clock closings hour on Friday nights because it onvS ables mo to get away from the Bhon4 earlier on. Saturdays."- ' ~ |%