QUESTION OF HOLIDAYS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 199, 16 May 1908, Page 7

QUESTION OF HOLIDAYS

EMPIRE DAY,VERSUS THE PRINCE OF WALES'S BIRTHDAY.

; EITHER NEITHER, OR BOTH. The-hardy'Annual-that) blooms :iu the month of May "Tias- -arrivod—that ia, tho;aiiriiial controversyrthat ta-kos place-over tho*question as to whother Empire Day (May 94) or Prince of ; Wales Birthday'(June- 3)' should bo observed as a public'holiday; Cardinal Loguo ' lias ;,sta|eid i ,,by e;i'oki;-.that .from ! a -patriotic ,\;ie!x;;New;: Zealand is. indifferent, so thero,-.: does;, jipt..- seom . any .. reason,, . acwitling.' l ' > {piv>^is;y;6pmiphj.:. ; ,-,'ivh i y ,<.w'e; : ,..should ■ troubl^ ll about -'observing /either. Fortunately,-.?-however, . His Eminence has -•tbeerii^corrMtly;-:!'advised, ; with -respect to the-national -sentiments of the Dominion, and cither Empire Day or tho Prince's natal day (or both)/;ik;'morally certan) .to. bo observed ,t, 1 . Among! who :wish to - clear Tip any doubt as rtovwhicli- • day is ■to be observed is the New-'.-Zealand.'Warehousemen's Associa- ; tion;" whiclr..h'as , written , to. the'. Wellington /Cliamber o£tCo!nmorco'<for.a:lead in tho mat- ■ t-ei-j. Astwill bo seen:in the following, letter, the"Association ;lidsr;fiot'.written'in. vain iH 1 -" " » ' " - .As-'.:"- ... Wpllin'gtdhi''''

(" Dejirssir",—ln reply, to .your lqttor of even* date,- I have- to report that the ChamDefiMs 'not A'ets taken any action nr Day and -Prince,'.'of-;.Wales'""Birthday. . --.Thero : arc dilDeulties in' the. wav. of- an arrangc--two -are tDo i close together to the . observation; ofboth, Thero is a teehng m favour ofEmpiro Dav,.but tho .Prince's day is -a-, statutory holiday, > while,, on the othel'ihipid; the 24th of tho month being . the-day. v before tho day for' delivery.|Or- dispatch- of: goods to country custom'ers/;,is vinconvepiont at all ■ times for a holiday. - On'this occasion tho 24th falls on-a-Sunday-,j ,ind Empire Dav is to ■ /bo observed on.tho.2sth itself. -This will, ..-.lam syrc,:be as an insupcrablo objectipir.to a.holiday on thai day. Your letter, will,.' however, bo, laid before a . ; meeting. -of th<}, Coupcil next week.— . Yours faithfully, ■ y ' ■ ■ " S. CARROLL, Secretary."