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DUNEDIN OPPOSITION TO PROPOSAL The Otago Retailers’ Association is not in favour of the adoption of the proposal for a five-day week. The secretary (Mr H. D. Tennent) said yesterday that it was felt by his association that the time was not opportune for such a move, which must have an effect on other trades, since it did not appear to be in keeping with the general war effort. Shop assistants were governed by two awards, Mr Tennent added. One related to the Auckland district and the other to the rest of New Zealand. The Auckland award would expire at the end of June, and when the new award was being framed consideration would be given to the proposal for a five-day week. The award covering shop assistants in other parts of New Zealand would expire at the end of September, Mr Tennent said, and the provisions of the new award would no doubt follow the lines adopted in Auckland. The decision in regard to a five-day week had been carried at the recent conference in Wellington of the Retailers’ Federation on the vote of the Auckland Retailers’ Association.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25514, 19 April 1944, Page 4
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192TIME NOT OPPORTUNE Otago Daily Times, Issue 25514, 19 April 1944, Page 4
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