SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10547, 1 February 1912, Page 6

SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY

and other things. Mr H. Long writes as follows to the Wairarapa Age:— "Kindly allow me a few lines in your widespread paper ro tlie Saturday 'half, holiday. Whatever will our Councillors put forward next ? C'Uiii any sane man say that j (the Saturday half-holiday would bo beneficial to the tradesman or the working li'.ian ? I could mention sev- I eral things that would 'be more beneficial to argue about- than half holidays. Whv not reduce the price of J killing at the Abattoirs? It costs me Is 3d for a sheep, 2s for a pig, 6s for a beast, and Is 3d for lambs. At "blie works, ha lII' a nuile further on, tliej slaughter ai'iti inspect miutton and lamibs for 2.'. per head, and beef something like 'is 6d per head. Why not 'support a local industry? _ Another 'thing: Build a municipal picture pal- ' ace, and keep tlie money in the town. Fetch the showgrounds back to the old place, where it takes only a few minutes to walk to, and save all the row about the re-naming of Kuripiwu. I Or instal an electric light plant, thiat we may see a little better than at pre? sent, If our Councillors had carried the Saturday half holiday, there would have been, a rumpus amongst the workers and business men of t-hi* town. Ulster would not have been a patch on it."