ROSE CARNIVAL DAY.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, —The official decision to make election day a compulsory holiday is being received with a considerable amount of dissatisfaction amongst a certain section of the public. The fact of this holiday being made compulsory provides a sorry excuse for a few shopkeepers to keep their places of business open the following Saturday afternoon, thus' depriving their assistants of their legal half-holiday. This handful of employers is going to deprive some hundreds of employees from enjoying their annual visit to the rose carnival—a day which should be devoted exclusively to the people for the people's ulti-
mate benefit. It is certain that business will be stagnant, and as a suggestion 1 think if these employers were approached by some influential citizen or the Rose Carnival Committee there would bo found no difficulty in persuading the majority to close at the usual hour.—l am, etc., • PETER THE HERMIT.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16726, 5 December 1914, Page 7
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153ROSE CARNIVAL DAY. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16726, 5 December 1914, Page 7
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