THE BURNING QUESTION

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 330, 11 January 1937, Page 4

THE BURNING QUESTION

I I An Ex-Resident On the ■ Town’s Half-Holiday. (To the Editor). Sir, —In connection with the alteration of the weekly half-holiday in Stratford from Thursday to Saturday I am impelled from a senst of duty to enter a most emphatic protest I against the change. ! If sport is considered to come before business, the right thing has | been done; but if business is paraj mount, and in my opinion it is, I believe that the worst blunder in the commercial history of Stratford has been made. For many years the trade of the farmers has been fostered by those in authority and has prospered. The argument that farmers can come in on Friday as conveniently as Saturday is not in accordance with fact. Saturday has been and is the most convenient day for the farmers as a market and shopping day. 1 suggest that the townspeople give ; the matter further consideration j with th© object of reverting to the j old order. To those who favour the | Saturday half-holiday because of | sport I say to them, think of your } jobs as well as of sport. I most cer--1 tainly believe in sport and it is es- ! seiitial to the well being of individI uals, but sport before business is a i policy that may make many sad in j the near future.—l am, etc., W. P. KIRKWOOD.