PUTTING BACK HOLIDAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17977, 24 March 1930, Page 6

PUTTING BACK HOLIDAY.

S!FJ T. SIDEY’S LATEST. OTAGO CLUB REFERENCE. Referring to the latest proposal of Sir Thomas Sidcy that the of the Dominion should take their Christmas holidays a month later, Mi E. W. Platts S.M.. speaking at the inaugural gathering of the Otago Club, at Lhe Winter Show Hall on Saturday night, said the proposal was of importance to the whole community. He also reminded the gathering that Sir Thomas was an Otagoite. “The proposal is,” said Mr Platts, “that our Christmas holidays should be taken a month later. It is interesting to note that this suggestion has not aroused anything like the hostile criticism that at first greeted tnc daylight saving scheme. But we are all so conservative at heart; we are so frightened of any change in longestablished practice that already opposition has been raised to this new idea. To choose the finest and the warmest weather for our holidays seems just as sensible as daylight saving. The London business men take theirs in August, their best month. A month’s postponement would nearly always ensure for us finer weather than we get at Christmas, and therefore a more healthful and enjoyable holiday. In Hamilton and other places in the north the change would save the children from exposure to sickness that close confinement in over-crowded ilt-venti-latcdvschoolrooms in the hottest month of the year invariably brings. This is an important question that each of us should think out. If we do so I feel sure the reform will come with more credit to Otago.”