WET WEEK-ENDS
| ir,-Ihere must be "a nigger in the woodpile somewhere" causing all the wet week-ends mentioned in The Listener. Are you sure the war in some way is not to blame, or is it that the meteor-what’s-its-name is far too liberal with the rain at week-ends? I am glad to say we have our local weather-man trained somewhat and so have more wet nights than wet days, which is very handy. However, something ought to be done about so many wet week-ends throughout the country. As we have already mixed our days and nights up into a system that our grandparents would not be able to recognise, and having given ourselves Sidey time, summer time, winter time, full time, half time, overtime, overtime and a-half, double overtime, wet time, full days, half days, late nights, long nights, short nights, Saturdays off, Sundays on, Sundays off and so on, surely we may give ourselves fine week-ends! It’s not a new thing to. move days about, for instance, New Year’s Day was moved out of March to its present place, and once 11 whole days and nights were dropped out of the year altogether, so why should we keep to wet Saturdays and Sundays and that Monday-morning-feeling that follows them? I suggest we ‘move the week-ends into the middle of the week and so do away with all wet -week-ends for ever!
PROGRESS
(Kaitaia).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 5
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233WET WEEK-ENDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 5
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