TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 274, 19 December 1913, Page 3

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Pressure upon our space to-day compels us to hold overall correspondence having reference to the industrial strike.— ED. W.P.

TO THE EDITOR. Slß,—Permit me, through the medium of < your paper, to express the disgust felt by the shop assistants of Te Awamutu, as also by a large section of the general public, at the unwarranted action of one of our local grocers in declining to join with the other business people of the town in a proposed movement to observe the Saturday following Boxing Day as a holiday in order to afford the shop assistants, as well as the employers themselves, an opportunity of visiting the Auckland Exhibition. Notwithstanding the fact that every other business man in the town signed his willingness to close his shop on that dav, this person objected, and does so on every occasion that anything of the kind is mooted. Whether the movement is going to fall through or not on his account I don’t know, but I think that thsse who signed the petition should treat him with the contempt he deserves ; and if he insists on keeping his shop open while the others remain closed I am sure that the fair-minded people of Te Awamutu will see to it that he is no gainer at the other storekeepers’ expense on that day. —I am, etc., Disgusted Assistant.