Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1895. BUSINESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4915, 2 January 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1895. BUSINESS.

Myhiads of Christmas and New Year wishes have now sped on their way, their kindly purpose fulfilled, and following in their wake comes " business." To-day a million bills will be delivered or posted reminding people that happiness in tho New Year is somewhat dependent upon getting in money. We are also reminded that to-day we are entering upon business under now conditions, and wondor whether the new coat or possibly the straight-waistcoat which our Ministerial tailor, the Hon. W. 11. P. Reeves, has designed for us will bo comfortable. Office men say it will bo" Kapai." No working after live o'clock, Saturday afternoon free, aud a holiday on sonio other day in the week; but then the employer comes along and remarks that if the office man is going to work fower hours he can do with less wages, and that ho can perhaps adjust the compulsory early closing by coming an hour or bo before his wonted time in the morning. Then the office man says the change isn't "Kapai," and possibly swears at his benefactor, the Ministerial tailor, Wo have a lot of adjustments to mako under the new Act, and by the time they are completed the Ministerial tailor is unlikely to be the most popular man in the community, The Shop and Shop Hours Act, however absurd it may be, is now the law of tho laud, and after to-day there will be a hundred inspectors on the warpath to see that its provisions are carried out, It must be obeyed, there is no question about that! The framers of the measure may be the biggest fools in the community, but once it becomes law, it has to be respected and conformed to. Business commences under some new difficulties in the present year, but all necessary adjustments will soon he made, aud things will go on much tho same as before. A few hundred employes, in the process of adjustment will join the ranks of the unemployed, but this in inevitable whenever ti new garment made by onv Ministerial tailor comes to be worn. •

The annual picnic of the Mastcrton Presbyterian Sunday School was held yesterday in Mr Woodroofc's paddock, Colomba fioad. The day, though threatening , a litfJe after dinner, turned out all that,could be 'd«M, Tho attendance was very largo, numbers toying the Sports -and coining to tea on the ground. Qntho wholo everything passciloff iwjl, fflwej,- etc,, 'be/n/r. indulged in witli much, spirit,, the pipnb' being altogether very successful, .. J