easter and trading

Like blasphemy laws, like suppression laws, the laws on Easter trading are a farce. The law, as I understand it, only apply to trading.You need an exemption to trade within the law. Queenstown trades, Wanaka doesn't, despite more people in town. One Auckland suburb trades, the other doesnt. You can buy a beer in a brothel, but not a bottle of milk in a supermarket.

However garden centres still open and get prosecuted. Guess what. Someone has to work to prosecute them. Oh, the irony. They should be in churches, just like the traders. But then more priests will have to work to meet the demand. I wonder if priests get penal rates for working on Good Friday.

Just as well churches are not in the trading business. They`d have to charge a door fee to cover the fines. Actually, you`d hope they would get an exemption.

And while I'm at it, if you approve of a ban on trading on Easter Sunday, the very least you could agree to is make it a public holiday, with pay, so that those who don`t work on Sundays can get paid for not working, just as on Friday and Monday.