TARANAKI REGATTA HOLIDAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 5 February 1907, Page 2

TARANAKI REGATTA HOLIDAY.

r *o the Editor. Wiy—ltqi'>'i'B to your e rrcspoiukut })resui..ii:g that he is a business man, will he oe good enough to s.iv how often the .shops of New I'lynuiuth or of any other town between thai pace and ll'tliain iiave observed La luur Day as a holiday, with the exception ol' New -Plymouth and Wai lava last yanr. ill regard to holding the regatta ou a '.t'liur.-tlav, .surely Hoes not seriously think ti.al any other day would have been selected were. it possible to have held il .in ;. Thursday. The committee cannot c. I.i niand the fide to suit tiiem. but are compelled lo hold the tixture on a suit able tide. Unfortunately the days that would have united have been sv ectcd for similar functions in other places, and as the committee as well as the pnbiic, lie desirous o( seeing good entries, it was not possible 1,0 run against the larger and earlier lixed io gattas, a.s doing so would mean 1 hal there, would be no visiting crews. As

to the fuel of tin? t-voni having been fixed for Mew Years !)a:v last year, it (lout: honestly believing tluit the Friendly Societies' function woulj not. eventuate, the committee lieing jiwi to understand tliat it would lapse last year, like many others. I am of op iiuon that a number of business people have been deliberately misled in regard to altering the usual half holiday, a statement being frequently circulated that if Wednesday were observed it would lie necessary to close oil Thursday. The want of knowledge displayed by the legal profession on the Council in regard to this point of law is astonishing, and makes one wonder what they know of the law unless the book is under their nose. The same applies to the executive of the so call ed Tradesmen's Association. who should know something about lioli d;ilys ; but are ipiite ignorant of even such, a small point that should lie well within their knowedge. Mayhap the ignorance, is only feigned for a pur pose.—l am, etc., WHAMSI3OAT.