THE OPEN COLUMN.
For" the''past nme - months-{writes Mr R. G. ■ ,Knight) my-female employees have Worked the' 45 : fahurs'per week in five’ day's, r Tr6hi; 8 ami; t<V They do not coine at “all oWSaturcfays, thereby hayingAwp-clear days’ holiday and holyday as"tjhpy..choose-..1 fiaduyLOFX.little inconvenience by the arrangement, and the ictirls and Ithein.parents, : L.believe, aire'-more’-tHam’ ,. a -re -air Fridays. V* - T‘ u - < x : B ene : Irak public;.oOlae .bit.Vihavpitailed to notice .{ahallil jterm.it) the impudence of the .shopCassistants ,inusmgi;tlieir influence ttf the fbrthcbmingieleetiops to obitain'' a-Saturday ;balf-holiday. ; - t Such a , consummation sternly the .hasiiiess septfon 61 the attributed to dr»7 pers L day; rppreatipns k - etc. ‘evidently fail to realise, that in this-colony their •lot , is f castj.ini pleasanter: places-than hi any other part of thecworld;'' and it is time’-Wrey Ahbulii (oe gently-'pnshed' back to their proper sphere. ’ ■, rr/i v„. -rc. rr'.v O.ir .
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3883, 28 October 1899, Page 7
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140THE OPEN COLUMN. New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3883, 28 October 1899, Page 7
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