WEDNESDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.
[to the editor.] Sir, —I see a vote is to be taken in Greymouth about the weekly halfholiday. What’s wrong with Wednesday? It has worked well for years. I want to see the Saturday shopping night ‘kept going, as the only chance I have of getting to Greymouth is on Saturday. The few bob I spend may not be worth much, but I am just one of a number of country people who like to get a few things for the weekend in Greymouth, so we must leave a good many pounds there in a year. If the shops were closed on Saturday afternoon and night we would have to come .to town some other day in the week, which would be most inconvenient, and we would certainly not spend so much. I suppose people who want the Saturday half-holiday will call me selfish, but we all look at things as they strike us, and my opinion is that Greymouth would lose a big sum per year if the shops close on Saturdays. I know most of the big towns close on Saturdays, but they are not dependent on the country trade as the West Coast towns are. and we can’t place them on the same level. I hope when the numbers go up we will still have Saturdays to shop on.—Yours, etc., - OTIRA LINE.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1935, Page 5
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