THE KING'S BIRTHDAY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13557, 7 November 1907, Page 5

THE KING'S BIRTHDAY.

—* ♦ • SATURDAY OR MQNDAY? Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 6. At tho Arbitration Court to-day, Mr W. Ferguspn, secretary of the Harbour Board, asked the Court to rule whether tlie Board might observe tho King's Birthday, on Monday in lieu of Saturday. , Mr D. McLaren, of the Wharf Labourers' 'CftMbn, and Mir W. T. Young, of the Seamen's Uniori, said the men intended to abide by the award and observe tho holiday on Saturday. Mr Justice Sim suggested that the unions should agree to treat Monday as the holiday. If the unions could not see their way. to fall in with this suggestion, and subsequently came before the Court citing for a breach of the award on acoount of the workers not being paid holiday rates for Saturday's work, the Court might consider such, an application under section 86 of the Act, which allowed for cases regarded as trivial to be dismissed, with costs against the parties bringing the acti6n.