DOMINION DAY FARCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10434, 27 September 1911, Page 4

DOMINION DAY FARCE.

[The Manawusu -Livening* Standard expresses' itself as follows on what it describes as the "Dominion Day Farce":— "A solitary flag or /two, (bedraggled by .rain, was the only outward and visible sign that Monday, 25thi of September, .was the day set apart for the celebration of the transition of this country from a humble colony to the high, estate of a Dominion. But 'the business man who TOsedy decided to ignore a wholly unnecessary and quite unjustified waste of time discovered to his sorrow that something miore was being done to keep the memory of 'the day green. •Government offices, banks- and other institutions were dosed down, and the (result w&s a dislocation of business ■which was extremely (annoying. This Dominion Day farce is getting beyond a joke,' and it is about .time/that the Government put an end (to such an absurdity. It is la- holiday which is of no use .to anyone. The changing of a country's name—which did the country little tyr no good—is too thin a pretext .altogether for ' the dosing down of necessary business places, and the, sooner it.isi stopped the better. Telegraphic coiman,unication with outside places is cut off, and consequently mo wires could be got through from Otaki (where racing was in'progress) land other centres of, interest. Altogether the whole business is childish, and there is. small wonder that the harassed •business man say© .things that are unprintable about those responsive."