THE WEEKLY HALF-HOLDIAY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 119, 22 April 1925, Page 7

THE WEEKLY HALF-HOLDIAY.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In re the weekly half-holiday, may I present, through your columns, the woman’s arguments for Wednesday. A late night on Friday can never take the place of Saturday afternoon. Wives and mothers have home duties in the evening. Then on Saturday forenoon there is house cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done. 1 suppose the shop assistants will expect dinner to bo ready for them on Saturday ere they go to play. Who is to do the cooking if the wives and mothers go to town in the forenoon ? No woman with any common-sense would buy coats, frocks, dress material or knitting wool or siik in gaslight 01 electric light. I once bought gloves in gaslight. The girl who sold them assured me they were grey, but in daylight they were green! Then the children must be considered. Saturday is the only afternoon on which parents can take their children to get new boots and clothes. What pleasure this gives the children. Are they to he deiprived of it because shop assistants wish to play football? Will the assistants suggest that the schools should close on Wednesday and open on Saturday so that their inordinate love ol sport should be gratified? Saturday is undoubtedly the best shopping day in the week, and to close on that afternoon would be most unfair to the employers. Financially, the assistant? lose nothing, hut the employers suff groat loss. It is to be hoped tl ladies will consider the interests :

their husbands, children and the: selves, and vote without fail for AVc nesday half-holiday.—l am, etc., “FIRST THINGS FIRST.”