THE HALF-HOLIDAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 11, 23 December 1911, Page 5

THE HALF-HOLIDAY.

(To the Editor “Stratford Post.”) Sir,—On tlie half-holiday question 1 ask you to permit me a few words. As the Chamber of Commerce lias now made known the day favoured by ifs executive for the universal halfholiday, will you please allow me space in your columns to discuss the matter? ' From the outset it was apparent that the Chamber was really working to get Saturday the halfholiday notwithstanding that this was denied. If Saturday suited most people this would have been right enough, hut as Saturday is very unsuitable for a large number of shopkeepers and the public, I think the Chamber did wrong in trying to foist Saturday on Taranaki. 'I lie list that ,vas taken around by the Chamber and signed by a number of townsmen was not a representative list of the true feeling of the 1-own oncoming the holiday. Saturday as the universal half-holiday is more uiitable for business people who come under the Factories Act, banks, lawyers, and possibly offices generally rather than retailers. Saturday would not at all suit the farmers, and they ire surelv worthy of some consideration. The point made by Mr Richards that Saturday would be more suitable as the half-holiday to enable footballers time to recover from their ;oreness after playing a match is too] ridiculous for anything. The retail-j ;rs will not agree to Saturday as the universal half-holiday and the sooner the Chamber gets on to something more useful the more service it will he to Stratford. —I am, etc., MEM HER RETAILERS’ ASSOCIATION. Stratford, December 23rd, 1911.