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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144665, 27 April 1915, Page 7

THIS IS NO TIME FOR RASH AND DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS. TO NEW PLYMOUTH VOTERS It is your duty to think what will be the result of your vote. AVill it give anybody a lift up, or will it give anyone a knock down? "Will Saturday closing bring any convenience to anybody ? To how many small traders will it give a knock .downwards ? * IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE. Every pound spent *in New Plymouth by country people especially helps towards the general prosperity. Every pound shut out keeps prosperity back. Saturday closing will keep thousands of pounds from being spent by Saturday buyers who WON’T come any other day. These will buy in the small towns near whore they live. A great many Assistants in the shops DON’T WANT ANV QHANGE. They prefer the break in the middle of tho week. The time is most inopportune to bring about the dislocation of business by the introduction of a chahge which cannot possibly add to the business turnover of New Plymouth, and may possibly result in very serious loss. The question asked bv a working mans wife with three children, viz., “When am I to get out to do my bit or shopping if all the places are closed on Saturday ? ■ has received no answer, li everybody is at work at the same lime aU the week, and all the shops are closed when everybody is not working, when is anybody to do any shopping Y “Leave well alone” is an old axiom. It h:*s governed millions of people in every walk oi life. “Leave well alone” is Thursday motto in the present campaiirn. Vote for Thursday and leave well alone. New Plymouth’s advancement and your own personal interests arc inseparable. Vote for Th ursday and you vote for continued progress. The substance and the shadow. Thursday is the substance. Saturday the shadow. Vote for Thursday and tighten your grip on the substance. This is not a trifling matter. Much more than mere sport ami pleasure is involved. Heavy responsibility is attached to your vote.’ Argument, Experience, Facts, every bit of evidence, that-will stand analysis, all those things are on the side of THURSDAY CLOSING. The Saturday advocates can offer you ■nothing hut halcl assertions and groundless asumptions. The Thursday advocates can give you solid reasons. Here are just a few ; Thursday. 1. The Thursday half-holiday for shops has given general satisfaction. 2. There is more retail trade done in Now Plymouth on Saturday than on any two or three days in the week. 3. Thursday is a more suitahlf* day for the half-holiday than Saturday, both for buyers and sellers. 4. Thursday half-holiday constitutes an agreeable break in the week which is greatly appreciated by tradesmen and many of the assistants. o. A large proportion of the retail trade at present done on Saturday , would bo lost or diverted into other directions if a day other than Saturday were chosen, because no other day suits tho country and suburban people so well. The week's work is practically over, tho children are not at school, and hence the parents and children are free to come to town to make any purchase Iteccssa ry. fi. Artisans, labourers, factory hands, and others have their holiday on Saturday ; hence, if retailors were closed, a very large section of the public will have no opportunity of making their purchases in the day time, but will have to resort to late shopping. 7. Supporters of the Saturday halfholiday contend that Friday night will do for the late night, hut they forget that Saturday is followed by Sunday’s rest, whilst Friday is followed by a working morning. 8. With the over-increasing rates and taxes, tradespeople cannot afford to do a less volume of business, and the natural eoroequencc of any doorcase will be an increased cost of living which is already too high. 0. Despite statements to the contrary, tho retention of the Thursday half-holiday will not affect any class of workers who at present observe tho Saturday. 10. Those shopkeepers who prefer to close on Saturday will still have tho option of closing on that day, as at present, hut if Saturday is decided on, no such option is permitted, a position which is surely as undemocratic as it is unfair. 11. Tho Saturday half-holiday is not universal. The Act exempts the. following trades: —Butchers, hairdressers, tobacconists* bakers, chemists, confectioners, fishmongers, ■ florists, photographers, refreshment rooms, hotels, and fruiterers, so that a large number of shops in the town and all + hc shops outside the district will be open on Saturday, whilst a few traders will have to close. This is manifestly unjust. 12. Tho present accommodation for tennis courts, cricket and football grounds, bowling greens, and other sports grounds is taxed to the utmost on Saturdays, and overcrowding and great inconvenience will result if these pleasure resorts are asked to accommodate double the number. 13. In the midst of the greatest war in history it is unwise to make such a change. BRITISH FAIR PLAY. THIS IS BEYOND CONTRADICTION i Those who arc clamouring for Saturday closing CAN CLOSE ON SATURDAY IF THEY WISH. Why* don’t they act in accordance with what they profess, and show that they have the courage of their convictions? Why use “Prussian” force to compel others to close? ANOTHER SAMPLE. FACT versus FICTION. Tho Saturday advocates pretend to believe, and are particularly anxious thaQ you. also, should believe, that Saturday closing has' not seriously injured trade in Auckland. The THURSDAY advocates do not ask you to believe mere horesay and conjecture. THEY GIVE YOU FACTS. THEY GIVE YOU the testimony of Mr. John Bennie,, a well-known Wanganui resident, and a person who is not himself interested in the holiday question. Mr. Bennie saw a largo number of shops .empty in Karangahapo Road not long ago. one of tho busiest shopping streets in Auckland. .He took tho trouble to inquire, and was assured that SATURDAY .CLOSING HAD BROUGHT DISASTER TO THE STREET. Tile signed, statement of SEVENTY SHOPKEEPERS of Karangahapo Road to the same effedt. And in addition they give yon this, an extract from an independent and impartial report of a meeting recently held in Auckland: A second meeting of shopkeepers who favour the restoration of the "Wednesday half-holiday was held in tho Masonic Hall, Belgium Street,, Newton, yesterday morning. Mr. A. Moore presided, and there was an attendance of between 50 and 60. Several of those present who bad made personal canvasses of different districts since the previous meeting submitted their reports. These were to the effect that the large majority of storekeepers in Karangnhape Road, Ponsonby Road. Jorrcis Road. Symonds Street, Upper Queen" ."Street, Newmarket, Dominion .Road, and Dcvonport were in favour of tho half-holiday being observed on "Wednesday. It was stated that the feeling in Lower Queen Street was divided, the-proprietors of the largo shops being in favour of closing.on Saturday, whilst the others wero .in favour of Wednesday. In regard to Dominion Road, it was stated that the only exception was a roan who “kept open seven days a week.’’ (Laughter.) The Chairman said that tho smaller shopkeepers, almost without exception, felt that tho question of the restoration of the Wednesday half-holidav was a matter ALMOST OF LIFE AND DEATH to them. The matter was also one that greatly concerned the shop assistants. A representative of a firm employing a number of hands, who had been interviewed on the subject of reverting to the Wednesday half-holiday. , and who had expressed indifference in regard to the matter, had. remarked that if his business fell off as the result of Saturday closing all that he bad to do was to “sack a, hand.” The restoration of business on SaSurrday would, no doubt, relieve the unemployment -question to a certain extent. Another speaker-said that«at least To per cent, of tha shopkeepers were in favour of the .Wednesday-half-holiday. IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE. Don’t buy a pig in a poke. Vote for Thursday and the development of New Plymouth. Business before pleasure is worthy of your most serious consideration. Business men of New Plymouth, (see Thursday list already published) realise that the surest way to avoid Income Tax and. Death Estates. Duty isMo turn away Saturday’s business. Sport and pleasure are, after all, only secondary. The greatest good for the -greatest number has the firstplaim upon your vote. Vote for Thursday and you vote for the continued prosperity of New Plymouth and all its people. Look before you leap. It is just as well to do this, lest you change something for nothing. Sane and reasonable people are not in the habit of doing this, yet, incredible „as it may seem, the Saturday advocates are asking you to take a plunge in the dark. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. “Out of the frying-pan into the firef” That’s just what the Saturday advocate* are inviting you to do. You,have got a good thing in Thursday. The best day for all the people/ the day that confers, upon all the best the town can give. - Change and ybii will injure a large section for a little more sport and pleasure for the few. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. Most people prefer sterling value—a certainty for r.h uncertainty. Thursday and your town’s best interests -go hand in hand. - Farmers, Merchants, Retailers, Mechanics, and "Workers all proclaim this., Thursday is sterling , value, versus the spurious. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. You can’t live on love, neither- can. .you on sport and .pleasure. There’s no income from' either, and it’s income that’s needed to keep the Tiotne going. The Saturday advocates ask you to sacrifice your 'town’s best interests to sport and pleasure. Tote for Thurs* day as a protest against such a ridiU culous suggestion. Vote FOR the Mid-week Holiday. Vote AGAINST Saturday Closing.

SALES BY AUCTION. STOW RIVER YARDS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28. ETV TON |£ IX G Will sell at liis yards a* above—--250 HEAD MIXED CATTLE 80 Mixed Weaners 30 20-month Steers 20 Forward Cons 20 In-ralf 2-yoar Heifers lo Prime Fat Cows 500 Good Lambs 6 Bullocks, Dray, Yokes, Chains, etc. Sale at 12.30 p.m. • bl]2 TENDERS. TO BUILDERS. TENDERS will be received at my office up to 4 p.m. on MONDAY, .May 3, for Shifting the East End Firoj Station to Fitzroy. I FRANK MESSENGER, Architect. b 122 “ACME" CONCRETE FOUNDATION BLOCKS FOR WOODEN HOUSES (Patented;. lIGHT. everlasting, quickly and J easily fixed, and NAILS CAN BE DRIVEN ANYWHERE IN ALL BLOCKS. Now being'used in Air. R. Paul’s new residence, Devon Street (Messrs. Casey and Bull, contractors). Architects, builders, and others interleading Auckland say THE BLOCKS ested are invited to Specified by all vcbitecls. Builders say i nr, uwvao >CT £lO ON TO SELLING PRICE IF A 5-ROOMED COT TAGE, Write for Price List. “ACME" BLOCK SYNDICATE, oncrcte Block and Post Manufacturers, Willow Street, Freeman’s Bay, Auckland. b/4 meetings. FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE MEAT FREEZING WORKS. A MEETING of Farmers interested in the ERECTION of CO-OPER-ATIVE MEAT FREEZING WORKS in North Taranaki will be held in the OMATA ITALL at 8 p.m. TO-MORROW (Tuesday), April 2". The delegates will bo in attendance and will address The meeting. D p EX WARDEN, E. R. BAYLEY, LECTURES ON AGRICULTURE. MR. H. G. SERGEL, Instructor in Agriculture, will Lecture at 8 p.m. in the respective Halls as follows: OMATA —WEDNESDAY, 28th inst. -OAKURA—THURSDAY, 20th inst. OKATO—FRIDAY, 30th inst. Subject: “SOME OF THE PROBLEMS • BEFORE US.” ■ A. uGRAY, Director,

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL NOTICES. BOROUGH OF NEW PLYMOUTH. mjlE following Elections anil Polls X Will be taken on -WEDNESDAY. 28th instant: ELECTION OF MAYOR. Candidates— BROWNE. George William WILSON, John Edward ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF TARANAKI HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD. Candidates— BELLRINGER. Fred Cornelias James BROWNE. George William DOCKRILL. Elizabeth SYKES, Alfred Ernest WATKINS. Augustus Edward POLL TO DETERMINE THE STATUTORY HALF-HOLIDAY. Polling hours, 9 a.m. to 7 p.ra. The Polling Booths will be situated at— The Old Drill Hall, Kawau Street (principal). The Public Hall. Fitzroy. The Coronation Hall, Eliot Street. The Residence of Mr. G. A. Carney. Devon Street West. Air. Gordge's Store. Vogoltown. The Public Hall, Westown. Tho Sunday Schoolhouse, Frankleigh Park. The Gymnasium. Public School Grounds. St. Aubyn The Sunday Schoolhouse, Moluroa. Formal notifications of the above Elections and*Polls, bare already been made. Dated this 22nd day of April, 1910. F. T. BELLRINGER, Returning Officer for tho Borough of New Plymouth. b!2O MISCELLANEOUS. ESTATE OF C. W; HUESTHOUSE, DECEASED. FOE SALE, in lots to suit purchasers, desirable Building Sections fn Pendarves Street, near Fort Niger; exceptionally easy terras. —For particulars apply Public Trust Office. Tenders are invited for the-'Purchase for Removal of House and Outbuildings on the above property. Tenders close on*3olh instant at the Public Trust Office, where full particulars may be obtained. bB4 NOTICE. A NY T , person-found trespassing with dog or gnu will be prosecuted and all strav dogs shot. PECKER, Manager tor Major Young, Paraiti Reserve. Ki nga Maori.—Kaua knhcpn kauka hekuri ite taima '-pupuhi ouei tauki -Paraiti-ritaawhe.

ELECTION NOTICES. NEAV PLYMOUTH MAYORALTY. TO THE BURGESSES. I DESIRE to moot von at tho GOOD TEMPLAR HALL TO-NIGHT, the ‘_’7tli ' instant, at 8 p.in., when I propose to give an Address on Municipal Matters in furtherance of my candidature for the .Mayoralty. G. W. BROWNE. hi 19 HOSPITAL BOARD ELECTIOX. TO THE ELECTORS. AT the request of a largo number of electors I have consented to become a candidate for a scat on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, and would respectfully solicit your support at the Poll To-morrow. I am an advocate of portion of the old hospital being used as a Maternity Home for tho poorer classes; and in regaid to finance, am of opinion that tho burgesses should have a voice in these matters rather than that the Board should make a direct levy on the various contributing local authorities. Yours faithfully, A. E. AY ATKINS. . bIS9 HOSPITAL BOARD ELECTIOX. T RESPECTFULLY solicit tho snpA port of the doctors for my candidature for a seat on the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. I am an advocate of tho appointment of a Resident House Physician, with the retention of the present Visiting Surgeons; of tho establishment of a Dental Surgery for tho treatment of tho teeth of children and tho poorer classes at a nominal charge; of the exercise of the strictest economy in tho management of the Board's institutions consistent with the greatest efficiency. Yours faithfully, A. E. SYKES. 1)137 THE MAYORAL ELECTIOX. TO THE BURGESSES—ON "Wednesday next you will elect tho Mayor for the ensuing two years, and I beg to solicit your votes in my favour. This- period will he a most important one tor the Borough. The successful installation of the tramways and careful administration of the finances of the Borough call for the most serious consideration in the choice of a leader of the Council. The financial position' has been clearly explained in the Press, and the responsibility of returning tho candidate more capable of remedying the blunders of the past lies with yourselves. J. E. WILSON. b 146 INDEPENDENT Electors of New Plymouth, exercise the privileges Parliament has granted you and Vote for Saturday. bISS

TEE PEOPLES 1 'PAY. DRIVE OUR TOWN AHEAD AND VOTE FOR A SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY, BECAUSE—1. The to*vii will benefit greatly by shops being open on Thursday afternoons. Thousands of our country people visit New Plymouth on Thursdays for picnics every year,- and we lose a splendid opportunity for business through our shops . being closed. All country picnics take place on Thursdays. These visitors would only be too willing to do shopping with uerif we gave them the opportunity. • The Country Shops Close on Thursday. 2. r armors will still do any Saturday business they have on-Satur-day mornings. At present practically all such country business is completed by mid-day. Farmers must and do leave-town early for their milking. Very many of our farmers now visit town by car and motor-’bus, reaching town early and leaving early. One o’clock closing on Saturday will not affect them. As a matter of absolute fact, the great bulk of country bush ness is now done through the week. 3. Our trams will be popularised by Saturday closing. All 'local Junctions, local seaside picnics, athletic gatherings, etc., will take place on the one day, Saturday, and increase tramway travelling. Friday being the late shopping night, will mean increased tramway business on an additional night. 4. It will moan better health for factory, office and shop employees and employers because of tho continuous rest from businessfrom Saturday at noon till Holiday morning. 5. Employers will get bettor results from their employees, who will start the week fresh and ready for work; and not as employers often state is now-the case, unfit for work on Friday mornings. 6. Waitara is with ns in this movement. 7. Auckland, after a two-years’ trial of Saturday half-holiday, has decided against attempting tomake any change. This is a fast. S. Whatever day we have it is almost certain that it will not affect the result of the war, as Thursday advocates affect to believe. 9. Our opponents all admit the principle of Saturday closing as correct and ask that it ho made universal by law. (See their manifesto). Why, then, not start now ?, Note. —Voting for Saturday will not affect the majority of those who signed the Thursday manifesto, as butchers, hairdressers, tobacconists, bakers, chemists, confectioners,- fishmongers, florists, photographers, refreshment rooms, hotels and fruiterers are exempt from Saturday closing, and will still be open for business if they " Sllto DON’T BE MISLED. NEVER HIND WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE MAORI WAR, BUT VOTE FOR SATURDAY.