DARE WE?
Dare we risk giving Whangarei a set back just when the North seems coming into its own? Dare we divert the trade of Portland, Waikiekie, Keotahi, Moerewa and other outside working centres, elsewhere? "Would it not be folly? bhall we slam our doors in the face of the trade which knocks at them and which means greater prosperity to every resident of Whangarei? Shall we send to Auckland advertising firms and catalogue distributors the worker who can only use Saturday for personal purchases? Whangarei is to be a' centre for High and Technical Schools. Shall we discourage the visits, for business as well as greeting, of the parents who would meet their children there being educated? Only on Saturday can they have their company, for on that day is no school. Are we to send away the business of the country teachers whose only opportunity for trading and for foregathering is Saturday? Lastly, and particularly, why should not man and wife be allowed to shop together with pleasure and comfort, and why shall all the weekend purchases be hustled and jumbl* ed into Saturday forenoon? No! Let us vote for Thursday Afternoon Holiday. 455
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Northern Advocate, 25 April 1921, Page 2
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196DARE WE? Northern Advocate, 25 April 1921, Page 2
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