The Easter Holidays

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 6

The Easter Holidays

GROCERS CLOSE ON SATURDAY There is one aspect of the Easter holiday provisions under the various awards that will occasion thought for housewives and those responsible for the conduct of catering concerns in the city and district. The butchers will be open on the Saturday morning, but the grocers will observe the holiday. This means that the grocers* shops will be closed from Thursday evening until Tuesday morning. The bakers’ award does not include the Saturday in the list of holidays. The late night this week will be universally observed on the Thursday instead of the Friday, which is a holiday.

The following awards provide for observance of holidays on Good Friday and Easter Monday: Aerated water workers, bakers and pastrycooks, brewery employees, brewery labourers, butchers, chemists, dressmakers and milliners, fibrous plasterers, furniture manufacturers, laundry workers, plumbers, tailors and tailoresses. The following awards provide for Good Friday, Easter oaturday and Easter Monday: Builders* ana contractors’ labourers, carpenters and joiners, grocers, motor mechanics, ffhop assistants, wool scourers. Of course, in cases where a 40-hour week is observed without time being worked on Saturdays this will be the case over Easter, the advent of the other holidays having no effect. As a holiday the Tuesday following Easter will not be very widely allowed this year. Few awards, whether governing the industrial or clerical side of any occupation, specify this day as a holiday and its observance will be largely a matter of discretion on the part of any individual firm, shop or office. A case in point is the commercial banks, which will not resume until the Wednesday.