COMPULSORY HALF HOLIDAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 164, 15 July 1903, Page 2

COMPULSORY HALF HOLIDAY.

Tradesmen iu New Plymouth will! tnrdly need a reminder of the meeting regarding the Shopa and Offices Bill now before the House. The feature of the nravure likely to dissatisfaction is tha compulsory half-holiday. As we pointed oat a few d lys back, the local conditions ere altogether opposed to the Pa'urday half-holiday, and in my case people strongly object to compulsion in matters of this kind. Wt are not aware of any reason why, becau e it suits the policy of one locality tn 1 ave th) weekly half-holiday, on say a Thursday, thsy should be codeelled to huv; ii ou soma other day of the week, because it suits sim 3 other oeaU'.y to hava thsir half-holiday o.i another day. Indeed, commercial travellers tell us that it is a very great advantage to them in thur business !hilarious 6}«n« having their weekly half-holiday ou a different day. In thia ma'ter we are loc .1 optionists in en'iret.y, and have little dcubt Hut that the House will take the same view, That'is every reason, however, why those who ere Anxious to prevent a universal Siturday half- holi *ay should I enter a strong protest against i*, so that I the House may know the feeling of ths I country on tbe subject.