MORRINSVILLE NOTES.
WEEKLY H ALF-HOLI DAY
POLLING AT ELECTIONS
[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN* CORRESPONDENT.! MORRINSVILLE. Wednesday.
As tho result of a petition bearing 116 signatures the Morrinsville Borough Council has decided to ask the ratepayers to vote at a poll on May 1 to decide which half day of the week stiall bo observed as a holiday.
This decision follows .1 movement in Thames Valley towns to observe a midweek half-holiday in order to. encourage business from country shoppers on Saturdavs.
In the course of a plea for the more efficient conduct of voting at forthcoming municipal elections, Mr. B. Chapman, the deputy-Mayor, alleged that the secrecy of the ballot had by no means been guarded at the last municipal elections. owing to the haphazard nature of (ho arrangements. A motion by the speaker that the town clerk be empowered to install regulation booths in a hired hall for future elections was unanimously carried.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 4 April 1929, Page 12
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