PUBLIC OPINION

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7677, 23 April 1921, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION

ANZAC MEMORIAL SERVICI

(To the Editor)

Sir, — The Anzac mem oriel service is, I understand, to be held in the Town Hall. Why not, il weather permits, hold the service in the Domain and get the Band to play the hymns? This would indeed produce a more inspiring ceremony and be more military' in effect. —I am, etc J. H. BEALE Tauranga, April 22 IQ2I

RE HALF-HOLIDAY

(To the Editor)

Sir, —1 would respectfully di reel your many readers’ attention to the two large advertisements regarding above. Note on the Saturday advertisement there are only ten actual retailers (that is excluding all those already under the Factory Act who have got to close Saturday), and on the Thursday advertisement are thirty signatures of actual shopkeepers. In short it means 3 to t in favour of Thursday halfholiday. Therefore, swell the crowd and vote for the popular Thursday.—l am, etc., ‘JAS. TORRANCE. Tauranga, 23rd April, 192 c SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY (To the Editor). Sir, —The country people are rather surprised at the attitude of a section of your business people in trying to. get Saturday afternoon a holiday instead of Thursday. I' represent many who are only able to go to Tauranga on Saturday and we combine our business with pleasure on that day. It is impossible for us to get to Tauranga before 11.30 a.m on Saturday and if you took our yearly spendings in cash, it would amount to considerably over the four figures. We can shop easily at our nearest town, but most of us love the sea. and Fwould like to ask the people who advocate Saturday closing if they would like to be put in our place milking cows and rearing large families, working as we do, six days out of the week, sixteen hours a day at the least This is no time for experimenting. —I am, etc A LONG RESIDENT OF TAURANGA AND TE PUKE Te Puke, April 22nd 1921

Mr W. W. Jones, ✓one of the candidates for the Council, took the opportunity at Mr Robbins meeting last night to correct a wrong impression which, he stat ed. had got abroad as the result of [Ms remarks :,t Mr Crabbe’s a few evenings previously. It had been stated he would hold up the progress ot the town for five years. That was entirely erroneous. What he said was that it was not a time now to borrow monev. .Within five veais from now money would, h'e believed, fall to a rate that had never been kmnvn. He claimed that that was an optimistic outlook, and that it was belter to wait to borrow until money did drop.