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different racial and religious elements of the labour employed on it. The matter is usually susceptible of adjustment by the District Commissioner concerned, in consultation with those responsible for the work and, if need be, with the religious head of the community affected. There is no difficulty in respect of skilled individual craftsmen who can do their work in their own time.

119. The following are the religious or other holidays officially recognised by Government :--

Christians.

New Year's Day.

Epiphany. .

Good Friday. Easter Monday. Ascension Day. Whit Monday. Christmas Day. Boxing Day.

Moslems.

'Eid el Fitr (The festival of the breaking of the fast)-

Three days.

'Eid el Adha (The feast of sacrifice)-Four days. Mubarram (New Year).

Mawlad en Nabi (The birthday of the Prophet).

Jews.

First Day of Passover. Seventh Day of Passover. Pentecost.

New Year-Two days. Day of Atonement. -

First Day of Tabernacles.

Last Day of Tabernacles-(Rejoicing of the law).

Armenian officers are accorded facilities to attend religious service on the day of Vartanantz.

120. Municipal corporations and local councils have powers to make by-laws to regulate and control the opening and closing of shops, and, without prejudice to the generality of this power, to prescribe opening and closing hours on any specified day for any particular class of shops *. The Tel Aviv municipality introduced
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* Section 98(s) of the Municipal Corporations Ordinance as amended by Ordinance No. 6 of 1945 (Palestine Gazette No, 1400 of 2.4.45, Sup. No. 1, page 38) and section 9 of the Local Councils Ordinance, 1941 (Laws of 1941, Vol. I, page 146),

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