NOVEMBER 4

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19441, 29 October 1925, Page 6

NOVEMBER 4

ADVICE TO EMPLOYERS. THE CLOSING OF PREMISES. For the information of factory occupiers and occupiers of shops, the local inspector, Mr. E. Gohns, states that section 123 of the Legislature Act 1908, provides as follows: — Factories. It shall not be necessary for any factory to close during any working hours on the polling day, but the occupier of the factory shall afford to each of his employees a reasonable opportunity of recording his vote, and no deduction shall be made from the wages of any such employee in respect of the time occupied in so recording his vote, provided that such time does not exceed one working hour. Every occupier of a factory who commits a breach of the last preceding section is liable to a fine not exceeding £5 in respect of every employee. It will be seen from the foregoing i that factory occupiers are thus required merely to give their employees reasonable time to record their vote, but not exceeding one working hour without deduction from their wages. Shops. I The Legislature Act provides 'that ! where the half-holiday is usually reiquired to be observed in each week on 'another day than Wednesday, that ! half-holiday shall in election week be i observed on Wednesday in lieu thereof.

AH shopkeepers are therefore reminded that the statutory half-holiday for the week in which Polling Day occurs will be on Wednesday in lieu of Saturday in the City of Wanganui and in lieu of Thursday in any other part of the Wanganui Inspector’s district.