THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS.

Evening Star, Issue 3659, 13 November 1874, Page 2

THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS.

To the Editor. siß,—The writer has it oa authority, and can produce satisfactory preof, that the trade of a certain well-kpewn gentleman's outfitting firm in thh City has very materially increased since commencing to close the es? tablishment on Saturday afternoon. Many cautious, well doing conservatives were of opinion that the action t ken was, to . ay the lea t of it, extremely” risky, but others who, it may be, saw further and deeper than these good folks, wero firmly convinced that it would prove a decided success, as it has done. This movement has in every case where but initiated, met in the old world, as well as in the new, with the opposition of cautious commercial men, who, as a rule, can see nothing more in ib than a reduction in the hours of bu iness, and a consequent decrease in turnov.-r ; but that this is a falsity has been proved in numberless Cities in Britain, in Melbourne, and now at last in Dunedin. The writer sincerely trusts that the leading employers in other trades will begin to view this question in its true broad bearings, and grin the respect and esteem of the public as wed as their support, by closing their establishments on Saturday afternoon, so that the.y themselves, as well as their employe?, may eujoy the half-holi-day, which has been proved to be for rhe benefit of mankind, mentally, morally, physically, and financially.—l am, &e., . Geo. Dunedin, November 12.