SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 329, 18 January 1911, Page 5

SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY

A SUCCESS IN SYDNEY. The universal Saturday half-holiday i was brought into force in New South ! Wales last October, and although the : innovation was, at the time regarded i with considerable misgiving in certain • quarters, still after nearly three months' trial, the great bulk of the ; business people seem to be eminently i satisfied with the change. A large ; number of firms were communicated | with on the subject by a Sydney 1 Morning "'Herald" reporter last j week, and in no instance was there a j complaint of the diminution of the volume of business. Nor did any firm signify its anxiety to revert to the old order of things. The head of one house which used to keep open on Saturdays declared: —"If it ever came about that we could make a choice of Wednesday or Saturday again, I doubt whether we would go back to the old style." Several firms said that they had experienced very lictle difference as to the total weekly takings, though the daily receipts had varied with the new order of things, just a3 there had been necessitated some re-organisations in the week's business methods. But now the community was getting used to the change the business was flowing more and more regularly along the new channels. Before the change it was often urged that Friday night would never become quite like the old-time Saturday night from a shopping point of view, but the heads of quite a number of houses pointed out; that the new order had resulted in Friday night being marked by a much greater rush of business than the old Saturday.