TOO MANY HOLIDAYS?

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 151, 28 May 1929, Page 7

TOO MANY HOLIDAYS?

HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING. “The question of the costs of production appears to be one that has a great influence on our present eoonomic position. We are only too well aware that costs have risen in every direction. This, no doubt, is due in part to the higher standard of living, and as nobody shows any real sign of wishing to go back to the old ways, the present standard, at least, will be maintained,” said the chairman, Mr K. W. Dalrymple, in the course of his address at the Farmers’ Union conference at Mastertori to-day. “In this connection the thought occurs : Are we taking too many holidavs?” Mr Dalrymple continued. It would be interesting to compare the number of public holidays that are observed in this country with, say, England and America. While holidays, in reason, are good for everybody, too many for & country must react to that country’s disadvantage in the struggle to live and prosper. The proposal to fix the universal weekly half-holi-day at the week-end may be a wise one in many respects, but it may also result in. bringing about an undesirable state of affairs in the management of farms.”