FIVE-DAY WEEK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19123, 18 September 1936, Page 7

FIVE-DAY WEEK

CITY COUNCIL PROBLEM WELLINGTON DISCUSSION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Ways and means of introducing a five-day week in the Wellington city engineer’s department caused a sharp division of opinion .at a meeting of the council. The Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, warned the works committee against going too fast in these matters. It was decided to introduce a fiveday week immediately in the city engineer’s department. Mr. W. Appleton, chairman of the works committee, said that the committee was unanimous that there was no reason why the council office should not follow the practice of other businesses and remain closed on Saturdays. The Mayor stressed the fact that Saturday was one of the busiest mornings. lie knew of rio Government offices which were closing down on Saturday. Mr. M. F. Luckie, supporting the Mayor’s remarks, said the council hat decided on a 40-hour week, not ,a fiveday week. Later, the Mayor, after it had been stated that some employees were not working full 40 hours a week, said they would have to investigate whether the daily hours would have to be lengthened to permit the week to be shortened. If the works committee could do in five days what used to take five and a-half there must have been a lot of waste time in the past.