CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

THE HALF-HOLIDAY

- TO THB IDITOI'... g; rj —Re the half-holiday question at Petone and the Hutt, surely, sir, it is a very poor case when .misrepresentation has to be made to boost it up. In your issue of Saturday was an advertisement headed " Hutt and Petone Holiday for Shops." In it was stated that forty shopkeepers at Potone and twenty-four at Lower Hutt were supporting the Wednesday. Well, sir, that may be quite true, 1 and they are perfectly right in supporting the day they want. But here is the point: It says that that by voting j for Wednesday you give these shop- ! keepers the option of closing the day that best suits their business—an option which is denied them under the present system of Saturday closing. Out of the ■forty supporters for Wednesday, a walk down . Jackson-street- this (Saturday) evening showed that twenty-six out of the forty were open, and were exempted 1 ■trades, comprising confectioners, lolly shops, fruit shops, pork shops, hair- | dressers. How can they advertise that ; they are debarred from choosing their own holiday?—l am, etc., • i SQUARE DEAL, i 21st April. I