UNLUCKY BANK CLERKS
SOME HOLIDAYS LOST THREE DAYS A YEAR. NEW LEGISLATION. [Special fo “Northern Advocate.”l V WELLINGTON, This Day. “Mummy can I be a bank clerk when I grow up?” asked a youth about to leave school, and when hi» mother asked what for, he said: “Because I want to be like daddy and ge>holidays nearly all the year round. Bank clerks have lots of holidays 'during the year, but members of Parliament have decided to dp a little deleting, so far as three days are concerned.
St. Andrew’s Day, St. George’s Day, and St. Patrick’s Day will be removed from the list of New Zealand bank holidays by a Banking Amendment Bill, which was introduced and read a first time in the House of Representatives yesterday.
It is thought that young men who like to work in banks, apart from the “dignity of office,” on account of haying so many holidays, ’ will not be so keen to take on the jobs now that these three good holidays are no longer for those employed in banks.
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Northern Advocate, 24 October 1935, Page 6
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