Page 2 Advertisements Column 4

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15189, 9 April 1917, Page 2

Vote lor THURSDAY The advocates of Saturday closing have persisted in forcing a poll. This means a contest involving considerable expense; the many shopkeepers whose businesses would be injured by Saturday closing are compelled to spend money in selfdefence. In other words, they have been forced into absolutely unnecessary expenditure. The question is one which ought to have been postponed until after, the war. Only the other day, in. an eloquent appeal to the people of Wanganui, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. G. W. Russell, said: "The call to economy, to the abolition of luxuries, to the restriction of all unnecessary expenditure, was clamant, and should be incessant until the remainder of the war; as regards not only our Public Bodies and and Institutions, but also in connection with personal and domestic expenditure that can be postponed until after the war should be." VOTE FOR THURSDAY. This is not a trifling matter. Much more than mere sport and pleasure is involved. .Heavy responsibility is attached to your vote. .Arguments, •■Experience, Facts, every bit of Evidence that will stand analysis, all these things are on the side of THURSDAY CLOSING. VOTE FOR’ THURSDAY. IMPORTANT TO EVERYONEDon’t buy a pig in a poke. Vote for Thursday and iho development of Wanganui. Business before pleasure is worthy of your most serious considera- , tion. Sport and pleasure are after all' only secondary. The greatest good for the greatest number has the first claim upon your vote. Vote for Thursday and you vote for the continued prosperity of Wanganui and all its people. Ivook 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 o i doing this, yet, incredible as it may seem, the Saturday advocates are asking you to take a plunge in the dark. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. Those who arc clamouring for Saturday closing arc entitled by law to close ou Saturday if they wish. So far as they arc concerned there is no need for a Poll. Why don’t they close on Saturday and be done with it Why are they asking you to help them to force others to do what thev have not the courage to do by themselves P Because they know that it is only by compelling all to close on Saturday that they can effectually flout the convenience of the public and secure their own selfish pleasure with a minimum of loss to themselves. If they want the Saturday holiday let them fake it BUT DON’T BE A PARTY TO HELPING THEM TO INJURE A LARGE NUMBER OF THEIR FELLOW BUSINESS MEN. VOTE FOR. THURSDAY. 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 home going. The Saturday advocates ask yon to sacrifice your town’s best interests to sport and pleasure. Vote for Thursday as a protest against such a ridiculous suggestion. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. It is absurd to compare Wanganui with either-a large city or a country village. Wanganui is a provincial centre with a large country trade. Much of»that trade is done on Saturday. This is no time to run the risk of driving that trade elsewhere. VOTE FOR CONTINUANCE OF M ID-WEEK H4LF-HOLIDAY. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. Put the material well-being of the community before the interests of sport and pleasure. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. Be with the majority. Vote against unnecessary change, disorganisation,and injury. Leave well alone. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. Be sure you vote. Your vote is necessary to prevent business dislocation. Your vote is necessary-in the interests of all small traders, whose livelihood is threatened. Your vote is necessary in the best interests of Wanganui. Be sure you vote. VOTE FOR THURSDAY, Vote dead against coercion and injustice. Vote for a continuance of what exists. The right to close ou either Thursday or Saturday. Ally yourself with those on the side of Freedom and Liberty. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. Vote against a change full of doubt and uncertainty. A change that would most certainly injure a great many and absolutely ruin others. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. Heavy responsibility is attached toyour vote. Don’t fail to poll on election day. Cast your vote in favour of Thursday closing. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. A big majority of retailers stand at the back of this appeal for your vote and interest on behalf of Thursday’s cause. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. Refuse to be a party to a perfectly unnecessary change. A party to trade dislocation and business injury. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. The mid-week half-holiday and Wanganui’s best interests are inseparable. Merchants, retailers, mechanics, workers, wives, mothers., and children all proclaim this. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. This isjpo time for dangerous experiments, no time to trifle with and disorganise business, and. the town’s beet interests, for the sake of increased facilities for sport and pleasure. VOTE FOR THURSDAY. Vote against those responsible for this half-holiday poll and the wasteful expenditure in connection therewith.