HOLIDAY IN NELSON
FIRST MONDAY IN AUGUST
EARLY SETTLERS' CUSTOM
(Per Press Association.! NELSON, this day
Nelson, with a cloudless day, is celebrating the first Monday in August. . The holidav was instituted in the earliest days'by the first settlers following the" English bank holiday. It then lapsed, but was revived in the 'eighties as a half-holiday and, in later years, was made a whole holiday. Actually, the banks are among the few institutions which do not observe the holiday.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19697, 1 August 1938, Page 6
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79HOLIDAY IN NELSON Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19697, 1 August 1938, Page 6
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