CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1918, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To tlio Editor. .- _ Sir,—l notice- from a local in Tues-? aay's issue that Mr J. E. Corrigan, in his laudable and unselfish desire that, production should foe increased and expenditure kept "down, advocated at the Hawera ©airy Company meeting that the half holiday in towns should be done away with. Mr Corrigan says we are too lazy to grow potatoes (and presumably lie would include vegetables, the growing of which materially decreases the cost of living for the worker), and yet !he wants the shops kept open for the full day all the week through. When, then, does lie think the poor devila of business employees will, at this season of tho year, get enough daylight to cultivate their spud, and cabbage patches? A fat lot of good the possibly increased business to? be done by the employers would be tothe country or tho employees, and it is,, after all, by the employees that the creased cost of Irving is chiefly felt. Mr" Corrigan, of course, thinks in terms of hundreds of acres, but he would find a ] quarter of an acre enough to deal with by spade work at this time of year (when there is most to be done) 1 if he had only tbe daylight available between shop hours to do it in, and why Mr Corrigan should constitute himself Minister of Production and dictate to the towns rather gets one thinking. Perhaps Mr. Corrigan has yarned too long on a street corner some Wednesday and found himself «fet of tobacco after the shops! Were shut. Anyhow, if he really is anxious that everyone, including busi- j ness employees, should live as economic-! ally as during war-time, he won't help his propaganda much by talking through hi* hat as lie did on Saturday about tho half holiday in towns.-—I am, etc., QJTATSTEK-AORTC. Hawera, September 10th.