THE CAMBRIDGE HALF-HOLIDAY.

Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1476, 7 February 1903, Page 2

THE CAMBRIDGE HALF-HOLIDAY.

TO THE EDITOR. Slit,—l notice the farmers of Cambridge intend todiscuss the inconveniencethrown upon them by the Cambridge Borough Council, re closing business places on Saturday. Why such a day was fixed is beyond comprehension. Did not the Council or its worthy Mayor consider that Saturday was unsuitable from every point of view '! The inability of the shopping public, especially those at u_ lona distance, to spare the short time available on Friday night, having to return ear'y on Saturday morning to work, demands moro consideration than was shown. Again, a petition of 13 bona-fide shopkeepers, praying for Wednesday, wan ignored, hut a counter petition of 26 received great consideration ; hut, MiEditor, how many of the intellegent Council members analysed those petitions ? Had they done bo this fact would have been disclosed. Thirteen of the 20 were compelled to clo«c by virtue of being under the Factories' Act. which distinctly sets Saturday apart for closing. To my mind the whole :iffair is not progressive, anil it is to be. hoped that the Farmers' Club, as representative s of the spending public in the agricultural dig. trict, will, by the minutes recorded at their meeting, convince the Council of the retrograde movement.—l "in, e'e , P OCRESSIVK. Cambridge. February (3th, 1903.