The Half-holiday

NZ Truth, Issue 910, 5 May 1923, Page 1

The Half-holiday

; That hardy r annual the . return- to -. "Wednesday hajr-hollday , , Jceeps on cropping- up. The Wednesdayites were at it again all over the land last week. But where dad it get them, after all their stress and strain and petty personalities? r Only at the 'week-end — really,. Saturday Is the strong end. It is in the country towns ttiat' the fight is fiercest They went it hot," and strong, : like hammer ' and tongs, at Otaki, at Feilding, at Marton, at Blenheim, at, Carterton, at New Plymouth, : at Featherston, and Greytown. As a. result— Saturday won all alonjs the line, T excepting; Marton got Wednesday. (• '■ : " To ■ end ' ail this recurring strife and bitterness, Parliament ought to make it. an; early order of the day to put Saturday on the : Statutes as the compulsory universal half-holida'y— then everybody 'wbuia be satisfied.