SUNDAY TRADING IN THE KING COUNTRY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 3

SUNDAY TRADING IN THE KING COUNTRY.

TO THK EDITOR. Silt, —I notice in your reporter’s “ Nows from the King Country,” of .Tune 23th, a paragraph which points especially to the above subject, and which, I am inclined to think, was written rather from what your reporter heard than what ho had seen. I have now been in a store in the King Country for a considerable length of time and can assert with every confidence that the Sunday trading, so much written abont, is not sought for by the storekeeper. It is only in cases of necessity when any business is transacted, and instead of the constable in charge of the district being reprimanded he ought to bn thanked for his general civility and and gentlemanly behaviour both to the storekeeper and the travelling public. As a business man I cannot help bearing considerable comment on the above, and it it generally understood who was the cause of the remarks appearing in your valuable paper, but the general public think also that the gentleman who has been so busy in suppressing Sunday trading would carry much more weight if he stopped his own expeditions on the Sabbath, soliciting orders and collecting debts, or rather the debts contracted in the store managed by the general reformer. I am quite convinced that most people in business have enough of it in six days without trespassing on the seventh ; but I also believe in censure when necessary and credit when due, and not to bring things before the public eye which do not exest, or, supposing they did, presenting them under a cloak. Apologising for trespassing so much in your valuable paper,' I remain, yours obediently, Storeman.