CORRESPONDENCE.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 46, 22 September 1911, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(Out correspondents opinions are ihc.ii own; the responsibility of editorial Hems makes sufficient ballast for the editor's shoulders. It is necessary that all letters for publication sijoald bear the name of the writer—not necessarily fOl publication, but as evidence of good faith.J HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR. SIR, —A number of the Te Awamutu tradespeople are certainly not showing much foresight by agitating for the Saturday half-holiday. The auctioneers are undoubtedly the chief attraction that bring people into town. Being there they do some shopping, and once inside the store the average person sees some article that they want, but quite possibly would have done without, if it had not been brought under their notice. If it were not so, why would a salesman of special eloquence or one who knows how to display his goods to particular advantage, be in demand. One gentleman at the Chamber of Commerce meeting, said that it had been predicted that the Saturday halfholiday would ruin the blacksmiths, but the result ban proved otherwise: nevertheless, I am confident that if the local blacksmiths had their holiday the same day as the storekeepers, instead of Saturday, they would find a decided increase in their business, for the reason that many of those attending the salewill be at Ohaupo, Cambridge, or some other sale, on a day that is not held as a holiday. Of course the auction firms might be induced to change their day of sale, but until they do so, the tradespeople will be studying their own and also the farmers' interests by leaving the holiday as it is. —I am, etc., G. S. Clarke.