HALF-HOLIDAY MOVEMENT.
lhcro was an attendance of about forty or fifty tradespeople at a meeting called by the Stratford Tradesmen's Association to discuss the Saturday halfholiday question. A resolution was unanimously jpassed thati .the Saturday half-holiday would not "be in the best interests of Stratford as a trading centre, and those present pledged themselves to organise against the Saturday half-holiday. A fighting committee was set up and arrangements were made to fight ihe campaign. The main objection to the Saturday half-holiday was that i the people interested in football and j sport were dictating to the general public and the shopkeepers without consulting the farmers, without whose' trade, many of the shops in Stratford I and similar towns might just as well] close up. There was, too, no assurance that other neighboring towns would i adopt Saturday as the half-holiday, and if Stratford alone adopted it, they were . bound to lose trade, which would go to the neighboring towns. °
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 266, 2 April 1913, Page 8
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159HALF-HOLIDAY MOVEMENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 266, 2 April 1913, Page 8
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