PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 313, 19 November 1910, Page 5

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

The days on which it is proposed that employees in banks, shops, factories, and offices shall in future keep holidays are set forth in a Bill entitled the Public Holidays Bill. The bank holidays, it is proposed, should be New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christams Day, the day after Christmas Day, the Sovereign's Birthday, Labour Day, Whit Monday, March" 17th (St. Patrick's Day), April 23rd (St. George's Day), November 30th (St. Andrew's Day). In any Act or award or industrial agreement Labour Day shall hereafter be obsreved on the fourth Monday in October, and not on the second Wednesday in October. Empire Day shall be the fourth Monday in May, Dominion Day the fourth Monday in September, and the Sovereign's Birthday the Monday following the actual birthday, ecxept when the holiday falls on a Monday. Christmas or New Year's Day shall, when those days fall on a Sunday be observed on the next Monday. Section 19 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, is amended, providing that when the birthday of the Sovereign falls on any day other than Monday, the next Monday shall be observed as the special day, in lieu of the birthday. Scetion 35 of the Factories Act, 1908, is amended, so as to provide that When Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall on a ( Sunday or when the birthday of the reigning Sovereign fall on any day other than Monday the holiday shall be allowed on the next Monday.