FORTY-HOUR WEEK
Visitors’ Complaints Voiced. Press Association—Copyright. . (Received 11.50 a.m.) Sydney, March 13. Mr Joe Kirkwood, the golfer, on arrival from New Zealand today, said: “The forty-hour week is killing the tourist business in. the Dominion. It is impossible to purchase food of any description af. ter 7 ppm. Tourists generally, and Americans In particular, are bitterly complaining about this.
"Walter Hagen and I have just concluded a ten days’ tour of New Zealand. Our exhibitions invariably endied late, and the result was that only twice during our tour were we 1 able to have dinner at night. It is a case of ‘take your own food with you or starve? ”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 382, 13 March 1937, Page 5
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