THURSDAY HALF HOLIDAY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2246, 27 August 1891, Page 3

THURSDAY HALF HOLIDAY.

TO THE EDITOR. *l, Sir,' —Your valuable paper is, I believe, always open to one wanting to write, and through that medium many matters of importance are brought before the public. During the last few days a gentleman calling himself W. Johnson has been giving your readers the benefit of his mind on the subject of the Thursday half holiday, and if ever man abused a kind privilege that one has done so. Very little could be gathered from the first letter, but the second was simply arrant nonsense. Wheu I read it my first thought was, one of surprise, sir, that you should have put such stuff in your paper, but now I think you would not have had time to read it all, and, never thinking that any man outside the walls of a lunatic asylum would write such a letter, you passed it The letter seems to have been written in answer to “Football.” Mr Johnson could not find any common sense in his letter. He seems to have felt this the more because “Football” quoted portions of his own letter, and to my mind that is the mistake “ Football” made, for you cannot get sense out of the senseless. However, to come to the point, it is when such men as W.J. begin to meddle that good things are spoiled. It has been trouble enough to get the holiday, without having to defend it against such twaddle as that of W.J. Why did he write against the holiday ? because, after spending all the morning lying about the house, he found he had forgotten that it was Thursday, and had to wait for what he wanted until next morning. I will not insult the intelligence of your readers by repeating all the letter, but allow me to draw attention to the lack of it in Mr J. After tellings us that shop doors should never be closed, for fear of a sick child or someone having to go away by coach, he says the half holiday, to be workable, should be enjoyed by all. All business should be entirely suspended, and then, waxing eloquent, he writes: “That is what it must come to ; sooner or later the shops will have to close at one on Saturdays.” After reading that I came to the conclusion that Mr J. did not know what he wanted further than to see something of his pen in print. In conclusion, I hope he will follow £ ‘ Football’s ” • plan, and not let his name be known when writing to a paper. —I am, etc., Handball.