VIEWS ON CURRENT TOPICS

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1935, Page 9

VIEWS ON CURRENT TOPICS

SATURDAY CLOSING ADVOCATED. - HALF-HOLIDAY FOR HAWERA. i (To the Editor). Sir, —I do not doubt that the arguments put up by “Leave Well Alone” were heard before New Plymouth decided to close on Saturdays. “Leave Well Alone” betrays himself to be a small retailer afraid of his life to lose a. shilling or two of custom on Saturday night. But this bogey has long since’’been interred. It has been found that the people will buy just as much whenever the closing afternoon is. And fancy holding up a move that has been tried out so successfully in other places because of the bob or two (pardon the vernacular) that'a benighted commercial may spend on a Saturday night. Anyhow, I don’t believe that the commercials spend on Saturday night in the smaller towns. My point is that there is economic loss in the differing half days in the province. “Leave Well Alone” is the shibboleth of. the die-hard conservative seized, unwittingly perhaps, of his own inferiority!.' “Stay where we are,” he cries, rather than move in one direction or another. How many reforms have been stayed by the same fear of the future as exhibited by your correspondent.—l am, etc,, HALF DAY. Hawera, November 7.