THE NATIONAL HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4412, 1 November 1934, Page 3

THE NATIONAL HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

Apparently an attempt is to be made to again revive the question of a National half-holiday on Saturdays. Naturally this idea has something to commend it —no big idea would be brought forward unless it had —but what might appear at first sight to be desirable, when critically analysed, becomes undesirable.

For big Provincial towns or cities there does not appear to be one argument against Saturday half holiday —no one is inconvenienced and thousands are benefited. F6r country towns, exactly the drvnosite is the case. In a district such as this, with hundreds of farm hands, flax workers and country employers of all kinds there is only one convenient shopping time and that is Saturday. If an organised attempt is to be made by the big traders of cities to force on to the little traders of small towns a measure which . will. seriously jeopardise their' businesses it is; surely sound wisdom Tor the latter to organise and fight against being oppressed. Foxton business people will no doubt be wide awake to any move made and oppose what is definitely against their own interests.