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FORTY HOUR WEEK (United Press Association —By Elect! ic Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON,‘June 9. Mr Inglis, in his presidential ad- , dress at the annual conference of the Typographical Association at Torquay, ’advocated a forty-hour-week. He said it was long overdue and wuld not s solve unemployment, but it would relieve the tragic position. SIR THOMAS WILFORD LONDON, Juiie V. Sir Thomas and Lady Wilford sail for New Zealand aboard the Akaroa on June 12. EIGHT HOURS FOR WIVES LONDON, June 8. Tire Lord Provost of Edinburgh (Mr L. S. Gutnley), addressing a Health Congress, urged an eight-hour day for wives, saying: “The man who labours all day in factory or office does not expend one-tenth of the physical or mental energy that liis wife demotes to running the home.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1936, Page 6
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