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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1395, 4 March 1905, Page 4

Thus the Wellington Free Lanoe on the holiday craze :—“ But, eerioußly now, is not this craze for holidays on the part of certain sections of tho community fast becoming an unmitigated nuisance, and a serious public inconvenience ? Is not His Worship the Mayor just a trifle too easily persuaded to insert those frequent invitations to tho citizens to put up the shutters and moke holiday on one pretonoe or another ? It used to be because of a victory in South Africa. Sometimes it was to oelebrato the return of a public man from abroad. To-morrow it may he the birth of a royal princo. Last Friday the excuse was the the beginning of a threedays’ orioket match between the Australian .Eleven and the Wellington Fifteen. Now, in the name of all that is sonsiblo, what earthly need was thore to ask the citizens to suspend business and make a holiday on Friday merely to watoh the first stage of a arioket matoh ? We shall be told by the enthusiasts that it is an unusual event, and that it is a complete educotitn in crieket to watoh the Australian exponents of the game. Very well, the matoh extended ever three days, and there was opportunity on Saturday afternoon for the great balk of the community to sprosd themselves on the course of study in bat and ball provided by the professors from Australia.