“There is no necessity for the inclusion of Anzac Day in the holidays in the award; it is a Sunday, according to .special Act of Parliament.” said Mr W. Cecil Prime at a Conciliation Council at Christchurch, which was considering the traction and stationary engine drivers’ dispute. Mr C. E. Otley added: “It is a sacred day. more than a Sunday. A man who works on it, no matter what he is paid, should get imprisonment on top of it.” The union’s assessors agreed to Anzac Day being struck out of the claim. It is the unanimous opinion in Southland that the oysters arc better this yeas than they have been for three seasons. Birds have three different classes of notes—alarm notes, call notes, and sona,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3808, 8 March 1927, Page 51
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