THE HALF-HOLIDAY.

Southland Times, Issue 19899, 18 June 1926, Page 9

THE HALF-HOLIDAY.

To the Editor. Sir,—Kindly allow me a little space in your valuable paper to indorse the terse and pointed utterances of your correspondent “Supporter of Wednesday Half-holiday.” It is as your correspondent says, if the polling is to be flouted in this high-handed manner why not allow a section of the tradespeople to do likewise and so make a farce of the whole thing? This juggling' with the results of a poll should not be tolerated as it’s only making a fool of the whole thing and country people. If something definite is not settled upon as intended by the result of the poll country people will be compelled to come to town every second or third day to do their various kinds of business, under the slip-shod methods allowed. A legal answer to “Supporter of Wednesday Halfholiday’s” terse questions should set the matter at rest, and if it should be a go-as-you-please sort of business, why put the country to the expense of a poll?—I am, etc., WANT TO KNOW.