THAT SATURDAY HOLIDAY
(To the Editor)
Sir.—“An Englishman's word is his bond” is a saying which should apply to British women also, but is apparently a bit too high an ideal to live up to in these strenuous days.
On Tuesday seven of our local drapers joined with other tradesmen in advertising in your paper a decent break in business iife for themselves and their employees? Yesterday seven of them just as publicly recanted because, forsooth, two or three foreigners would not join in. I do not suppose lor a minute these seven thought wlnit their action would look like in print, bat here it is:—lst: They have broken their printed word; 2nd: They have fooled the public and thirdly, but probably the least important in their eyes, bitterly disappointed their employees in a tune of acute industrial unrest. Best they sink further let me gently remind them that 1924 years ago a man found 30 pieces of silver no use to him, and that on Friday week we honour those who died to bring in a better and nobler world. Unless we LIVE for that object they died in vain. Wishing the sturdy Btli. draper, his staff and yourself a very pleasant holiday I am etc., bmtox. Hokitika, April 10th.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1924, Page 3
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211THAT SATURDAY HOLIDAY Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1924, Page 3
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