SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

Evening Star, Issue 3662, 17 November 1874, Page 2

SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

To the Editor. , ? lu > nm Phased to learn from a letter in Friday’s is me that ike opinion expressed by me in your columns, under date of October 5, has been verified. It would become those interested in the success ef early closing to make the fact widely known, as the most potent lever to human action in this day of oars is "money.” Convince men that ir will “ pay” to close at one or iwo o’clock on Saturdays and the thing is done. 1 sometime wonder that the shrewd business m-n who conduct the principal retail concerns in tins City cannot see that the very fact ot their taking up an independent position lends Lheir name a prestige that entirely swamps the petty loss of traders’ dregs that fall to their share during the last few hours on a Saturday night; but l suppose this is to bo accounted for fro u the fact oc the cautious siement bemg predominant. The policy 3i that class is usually considered to be well sxpressed iu the maxim, "A bird in the baud is wo th two in the bush ” Be that as d: may, I would strongly advise the Early closing Association to ■ l ;ke the success of jhe tradesmen ] allud>- t... widely known. By loing so theypeihaps .-ou'd induce others :o think they “micht do warn” than follow ;he good example.—l am, &c., VIR, j Dunedin, November * (