HALF-HOLIDAY POLL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 11

HALF-HOLIDAY POLL

PETITION PRESENTED

SATURDAY ADVOCATES’ ACTION A pull is io lie taken at the mum 1 q’.d eh i t iij ll :. im• \ I moot h on Ihe halt holiday question, provided a petition presented at t lie I iI; lie ! ‘omieli ’ humhoi . ici-rlay , found to he in order 3dvo’-ale . tor Sat urd.iv hah latliday lr ’l I hr ‘ hup:. 11l rumiliuli with Ihr (r.ltlev and pt'ufrsriuiis ha \ r hem :ii work ie- «•••"')> cm Ira \i ir in .secure sipnaluies representing onc-leuth ol the elecms on the borough roll to a petit.on asking for a p,,||. Today was the last day mi wlm h such a ' pel it ion could he lodged for a j lo |[ to he field at, tho municipal (‘lections next month. I he. petition appears to he in order, but ii is explained that all signatures "ill have to he checked, and if, after this process, it is Inuml that it comes M P l " Ihe requirements of the .Act dealing iviih this point, tin- council has no "/diou hut. to take a poll. In taking a referendum, ea-ti of the six (lavs of Hie week must he enumerated on the voting paper, but no doubt, voters generally will turn their attention to Thursday and Saturday. it, is six years since a, poll was held m tln„ question, the last in 1926 being defeated. Two years previously, when there was a particularly keen division of "pinion. Saturday was 'carried hv a verv Miiall maiority, hut later the poll wa's Jf Hie ballot- to be held next month is successful in the light of the Saturday advocates, i* will be the first occasion on which Gisborne shops have changed from the mid-week half holiday..