HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13486, 13 May 1907, Page 6

HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

PROSECUTIONS IN THE SOUTH.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Invercargill, Saturday. . At a large meeting held last night, it was unanimously decided to form a Universal Saturday Half-holiday Association, with a view of promoting interest in the question and supporting legislation that may be brought down next.session; in the direction of a compulsory universal Saturday half-! holidiay. The speakers strongly approved the Hon. J. A. Millar's enforcements of the Factories Act, and contended that the halfholiday Should be observed in all classes of employment on the same day. A committee' was appointed,: and a large number of members were enrolled.

Ashburton, Saturday.

An occupier of a factory was fined five shillings and costs at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, for failing to give his employees a half-holiday on March 30, the day after Good Friday. Defendant contended that having given them a special holiday in one week there was no need 1 to give the usual half-holiday.

Dunedin, Saturday.

■ Hunter and Etheridge, grocers, were fined 30s, and costs, to-day, for having allowed their carter to be delivering goods after one o'clock on Wednesday, which is the statutory half-holiday.