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THE COMPULSORY SATURDAY HALF-KOLIDAY.

♦ SOME MORE NELSON EXPERIENCE. A well-known and highly-respected exDunedin citizen, now resident in Nelson, states : " Eighty per cent, of the retailers are clear and emphatic about the loss of trade through the Saturday half-holiday. One point mav be noted: THAT THE GAIN TO SPO*RT BY THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY WAS NOT LARGE. Clubs gained a little in membership, but little, if at all, in attendance 'at games. The inconvenience to factory hands and working people generally was great, as they had no opportunity for shopping in daylight. Country trade was largely lost to the town, and country storekeepers have been stocking articles which thev had never previously sold." This is the only expression of opinion by this gentleman which has appeared in "the Dunedin Press, but it proves that the element of • compulsion in the Saturday halfholiday is not the only undesirable feature when it comes to be tried. [1442]

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Evening Star, Issue 14037, 19 April 1909, Page 6

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THE COMPULSORY SATURDAY HALF-KOLIDAY. Evening Star, Issue 14037, 19 April 1909, Page 6

THE COMPULSORY SATURDAY HALF-KOLIDAY. Evening Star, Issue 14037, 19 April 1909, Page 6

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