HOW WILL YOU LIKE IT?
EMPTY STREETS ON SATURDAY NIGHTS. Many of you who read this will have enjoyed, with members of your families, the pleasure of shopping in town this afternoon. It was your only chance to buy what you needed in daylight. Many of you husbands have enjoyed shopping in town to-night with your wives and little ones; it is a convenience and pleasure you would not care to forego the walk “ down-town,” the cheery, lit-up shops, the throng, the friendly meetings and greetings. Ah ! it’s a great institution, the “ Saturday night.” If you desire to preserve this enjoyment you must use your influence and record your vote for the continuance of things as they are—that is, the Wednesday midweek holiday for the shops that lay themselves out to meet your convenience on Saturday nights. It would be a calamity to Dunedin to have its streets on a Saturday night dark, bleak, and empty, your convenience upset, trade driven away, and the number of unemployed shop assistants added to. [1315]
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Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 5
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172HOW WILL YOU LIKE IT? Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 5
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