SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.
In view of the fact that a poll is to be taken in Masterton shortly on the half-holiday question, it is well that townspeople should consider the effect that the Saturday experiment has had on townships in which it ha* been tried. In Napier we are assured that the effect was so disastrous to trade, that the people were glad to return to the mid-week holiday on the first available opportunity. In. Nelson the City Council, by a requisition under the old Act. fixed on Saturday as the day of closing. After the Shops and Offices Act was altered, in 1909, a poll was demanded and was taken simultaneously with the municipal elections. After fifteen months' experience of Saturday, the inhabitants of Nelson, by a majority of 388 votes, decided to return to the mid-Ave,ek holiday. Another poll was taken in 1911, and on this occasion the majority against returning to Saturday was 583 votes. It will thus be seen that in the only two important centres in New Zealand in which Saturday has been tried, the result lias been bad for the town, and the inhabitant* have returned to the mid-week. Should not those experiences act as a warning to
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 April 1913, Page 4
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203SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 April 1913, Page 4
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