MARKET DAY.

Auckland Star, Issue 619, 5 January 1872, Page 2

MARKET DAY.

To the Editor of the Evening Stab. Sib, —T can hardly think how the hawkers of a petition to again alter the market day can be serious. Do they think that any respectable auctioneer will lend himself to such child's play, just to please a few greedy men who' would fain do business on Sunday als6,ifthe law did not prevent it. Now that the action of the auctioneers-has oaused a larger number of other trades to close their places of businesa on Saturday at noon, it will I have no doubt lead to the Saturday half holiday becoming almost universal. As to the conduct of one or two, who having signed a paper pledging themselves not to sell on Saturday and *then deliberately break their pledge, well, I leave it to, (the public to give a name to such conduct. I j<3(Usjtion if in the long run it will benefit them. 1 I don't believe any auctioneer of any standing will, allow himself to be made such a tool as the petitioners would fain do. I hope the public and those who are : willing to support the employees getting*,*"? half holiday will remember the conduct of those who would fain fatten on the losses of others. 1 hop's, sir, employers will alter the pay day, and thus settle the question of the market day, which the public may rest as* sured when our market house is built will not be Saturday! I am, &c, : . . . S. Si