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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 273, 28 April 1915, Page 8

The Empire is at War! New Zealand is Involved THIS IS NO TIME FOR RASH AND DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS. Vote for the Slid-Week Holiday. Vote Against Saturday Closing, Tins is not a drilling matter. Much more than mere sport and pleasure is involved. Heavy responsibility is attached to your vote. Argument, Experience, Fnets, every bit of Evidence that will stand analysis, all these things are on the side of *• THURSDAY CLOSING. The Saturday advocates groundless assumptions. 7he Thursday advocates 1 reasons. Here are just a ing hut bald assertions and TO NEW PLYMOUTH VOTERS. It is.your duty to think what will be the result of your vote. Will it give anybody a lift up, or will it give anyone a knock down? Will Saturday closing bring any convenience to anybody? To how many small traders will it give a-knock downwards? THURSDAY. 1. The Thursday half-holiday for shops ,has given general satisfaction. •2. There is more retail trade clone in New Plymouth on Saturday than any two or three days in the week. ;f. Thursday is a more suitable day for the half-holiday, both for buyers and IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE. Every £ spent In Xe\T Plymouth by country people especially helps towards the general prosperity. Every £ shut out keeps prosperity back. Saturday closing will keep thousands cf pounds from being spent by Saturday buyers who WON'T come any other day. These will buy in the small towns near where thev live. A great many Assistants in the shops DON'T WAST ANY CHUXGE. Thep prefer the break in the middle of the The time is most inopportune to bring about the dislocation of business by the introduction of a change which cannot possibly add to the business turnover of New Plymouth, and may possibly result in very serious loss. 4. Thursday half-holiday constitutes an agreeable break in the week, which is greatly appreciated by tradesmen and many of the assistants."" 5. A large proportion of the retail trade at present done on Saturday would be lost or diverted in other directions if a day other than Saturday were chosen, because no other day suits the country anil suburban people so well. The week's work is practically over, the children are not at school, and hence the parents and children are free to come to town to make any purchase necessary. fi. Artisans, laborers, factory hands and others have their holiday on Saturday, hence if retailers were closed, a very large section of the public "will have no opportunity of making their purchases in the day time, but will have to resort to late shopping. 7. Supporters of the Saturday halfholiday contend that Friday night will do. for a late night, but they forget that Saturday is followed by Sunday's rest, whilst Friday is followed by a working The question asked by a working man's wife,' with three children, viz., '•When am 1 to get out to do my bit of shopping if all the '-daces a-e closed on (Saturday?" has received no answer. If everybody is at work at the same time all the week, and all the shops are closed when everybody is not working, when is"anybody to do any shopping? "Leave well alone," is an old axiom. It has governed millions of people in every walk of life. "Leave well alone" is Thursday motto in the present campaign. Vote for Thursday and leave well alone. ' New Plymouth's advancement and your own personal interests are inseparable. Vote for Thursday and you vote for continued progress. The substance and the shadow. Thursday is the substance, Saturday the shadow. Vote for Thursday and tighten your grip on the substance. 8. With the ever-increasing rates and taxes, tradespeople cannot afford to do a less vo'ume of business, and the natural consequence of any decrease will bo an increased cost of living, which is alveady too high. 0. Despite statements to the contrary, the retention of the Thursday half-holi-day will not affect any class of workers tt'lii> at present observe the Saturday. 10. Those shopkeepers who prefer to close on Saturday will still have the op* tion of closing on that day, as at present, but if Saturday is decided otf, no such option is permitted, a position which is surely as undemocratic as it is unfair. 11. The Saturday half-holiday is not universal. The Act exempts the following trades:—Butchers, hairdressers, tobacconists, bakers, chemists, confec-, tioners, 'fishmongers, florists, photographers, refresihmeiit-rooms, hotels and fruitcicrs, so that a large number of shops in the town and all the shops outside the district will be open on Saturday, whilst a few traders will have to close. This is manifestly unjust. 12. The present accommodation of tennis courts, cricket and football grounds, howling greens and other sports grounds is taxed to the utmost on Saturdays, and overcrowding and great inconvenience will result if these pleasure resorts are asked to accommodate double the number. 13. In the midst of the greatest war in history, it is unwise to make such a change. BRITISH FAIR PLAY. THIS IS BEYOXD CONTRADICTION: Those who are clamoring for Satur day closing CAN CLOSE O>SATURDAY IP THEV WISH. Why don't they act in accordance with what they profess, and show that they have the courage of their convictions? Why use force to compel others to close? ANOTHER SAMPLE. IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE, Don't buy a pig in a poke, Vote ft Thursday and tho development of I«ew Plymouth. Business before pleasure jg worthy of your most serious consideration. Business men of New Plymouth (see .list previously published) realise that the surest way to avoid Income Tax and Death Estates Duty is to turn away Saturday's business. Sport and pleasure are after all only secondary. The greatest good for the greatest number has the first claim upon your vote. Vote, for Thursday and yo.i vote for the continued prosperity of' New Plymouth and all its people. Look before you leap. It is jusj; as well to do this, lest you change something for nothing. Sane and reasonable people are not in the habit of doing (his yet incredible as it may seem, the Saturday advocates are asking you to take a plunge in the dark. Vote FOR Thursday. "Out of the frying-pan into the fife." That's just what the Saturday advocatea are inviting you to do. You have got a good thing in Thursday. The bcßt day for all the people, the day that confers upon all tho best the town can give; Change and you will injure a large section for a little, more sport and pleasure for the few. VOTE FOE THURSDAY. ANOTHER SAMPLE. Most people prefer sterling Take. A certainty for an uncertainty. Thursday PACT versus FICTION. and your town's best interest* go hand The Saturday advocates pretend they Queen Street, Newmarket, Dominion >n hand. Farmers, Merchants,, Retajlbelicve, and are particularly anxious Road and Devonport were in' favor of the ers, Mechanics and Workers all proclaim that you, also, should that Sat- half-holiday being observed on Wcdncs- this. Thursday is starling value, versus urday closing has not seriously injured day. It was stated that the feeling in' the spurious. trade in Auckland. The THURSDAY Lower Queen Street was divided, the proadvocates do not ask you to believe mere prietors of the large shops being in tavor hearsay and conjecture. THEY GIVE of closing on Saturday, whilst the others Vote FOR Thursday. YOU FACTS. They give you v, ere in favor of Wednesday. In regard The testimony of Mr. John Bonnie, ato Dominion Road, it was stated'that the „ rai , .. ... n , u . well-known Wanganui resident, and a only exception was a man who "kept *™ «a*l»e<mU» *, nei fer can you person who is not himself interested in «P™ seven days a week." (Laughter). °>" Port . ™*J£™ ?■ ™ we '* «° * !,,,., ... , r t, ,_. . . r, .. , ~ „„,„,,„_ cuik irom either, and its income thata the holiday question. Mr. Bonnie saw The chairman said that the smaller needed k a large number of shops empty in shopkeepers, almost without exception, r * e Karangahak'.- l?oad not long ago, one felt that the question of the restoration of the busiest shopping streets in of the. Wednesday half-holiday was 'a m ja a t lm ] av advocate* mlr vnn f« Auckland. He took the trouble to matter ALMOST OF IJFE *AND DEATH „, 1„ ]! L" °?S SliS l! - T, '° m "" l \ was ala .°, one f tKa * sport and pleasure. Vote for Thursday ?QTTS^^P^r R rT L HT WS " S'-atly concerned the shop assis ants. A M a againßt Buch „ ri( , iculo / a ASTER TO THE STREET. representative ot a firm employing a u ,,, r „„A imv of a firm employing a BU g geßtion , The signed statement of SEVENTY number of hands who had been interSHOPKEEPERS of Karangahake Road viewed on the subject of reverting to the s to the same effect. And, in addition, they give vou thi day half-holiday, and who had •d indifference in regard to tho an extract from an independent and im- matter, had remarked that if his busipnrtial report of a meeting recently held in Auckland:— Several of those present who had made personal canvasses of different districts Id ness fell off as the result of Saturday closing all that he had to do was to ile "sack a hand." The restoration of ts business on Saturday would, no doubt, since the previous meeting submitted relieve the unemployment question to a their reports. These were to the effect certain extent. that the. large majority of storekeepers Another speaker said that at least 75 in Karangahake Road, Ponsonby Road, per cent of the shopkeepers were in favor Jcrvois road, Symonds Street,' Upper of the Wednesday half-holiday. -----

WE RESPECTFULLY URGE YOU TO THE RETENTION OF THE THURSDAY HALF-HOLIDAY THIS WILL NOT PREVENT ANY SHOPS FROM CLOSING ON SATURDAY. WORKING MEN J T IS EX ]> K 0T E D TII A T WAITAR A JOT.V HANDS SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY HALF-HOLIDAY. gTRATFORD WOOL, HIDE, SHEEPSKIN AND TALLOW SALE. NEXT SALE: TUESDAY, MAY 4. Clients are requested to forward consignments so as to reach ns by Friday previous to sale. W. M. BAYLY & CO. gAA ACRES, South Taranaki; level to undulating; ten paddocks; 440 acres well grassed; CO bush, 100 second growth. Good fences. Four-roomed cottage; yards. Two.sheep country. Five years' lease. No good.will. Dairy factory four miles—Apply FARMERS* COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, Hjwera and Agencies, . ,< KAPOXIiA SALE KRIDAY, APRIL 30. THE FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE ORGANISATION SOCIETY- OF NEW ZEALAND, LTD., Sell -l>.v Public .Auction, fts. above-i-10 store cows 12 fat cows 110 weancrs heifers •20 forward cows 00 mixed weaners 10 bulls WEBSTER, DOBSON & CO. LIST OF SALES. . r