Whatever the Public Holidays Committee was thinking of when
it recommended that four more holidays be added to our
already inflated quota of thirteen is almost impossible to
fathom. And if that were not enough for the business
community to digest, the committee in its wisdom has decided
to recommend that Boxing Day should be dumped - in other
words it is proposing to curtail the very festivities on
which the commercial sector depends for a large proportion
of its annual sales.
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