INCREASED COST OF LIVING!

Evening Star, Issue 15758, 23 March 1915, Page 6

INCREASED COST OF LIVING!

FURTHERED BY RESTRAINT OF TRADE. Any curtailment of the opportunities for doing business is injurious to the citizens. 'J lie restraint of trade created by the " compulsory " Saturday is hound to 'cvpress itself in higher prices. Otherwise how is the small retailer to make up for the loss entailed by decreased turnover'.' The Inexperienced talk loudly and assert that the loss of the Saturday night’s shopping is made up during the week, but the given facts of actual experience, tell a very different story! Dunedin can’t afford to fool with anything likely to affect injuriously its business prosperity, and the introduction of the ‘ compulsory” Saturday half-holiday is sure to be a'disastrous move. Is it a fair thing to jeopardise tho business prospects of many Dunedin retailers in order to humor the whim of a number of young folks who insist on having their half-holiday on Saturday instead of Wednesday! It's surely too foolish for serious consideration, .and with • war conditions prevailing too! Young folks will be young folks, but tho older citizens should help them to consider others beyond themselves, and not. force bad times, general inconvenience, and “ black Saturdays ” upon the community merely to gratify a preference! Citizens! set yourselves against the “ compulsory ” Saturday halfholiday.-