TOO MUCH "CADGING."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 86, 12 April 1927, Page 8

TOO MUCH "CADGING."

COMPLAINT IN HAMILTON. INTIMIDATION ALLEGED. ACTIOX TO BE TAKEN". (By Telegraph.—Own Corrospondent.) HAMILTON, this day. Complaints regarding promiscuous "cadging" were voiced at the Chamber of Commerce meeting last night, when the president, Mr. F. 11. Claphaiu, said the matter had been mentioned to him by ditTerent tradespeople who complained of visits from all kinds of "cadgers" for all manner of causes, meritorious and otherwise. Mr. Seymour pointed out that a similar practice of promiscuous hawking had developed. Piteous stories were told in order to dispose of goods. He knew of instances where timid housewives, alone in a house, had been prevailed upon to buy articles against their wish by the threatening demeanour, insistence and volubility of hawkers. The most obnoxious aspect was that when refused many of them became most abusive. "Half-pie" blackmailing threats made to tradesmen by those who signified their intention of withdrawing trade when a donation was refused for some object in which they wero interested were also commented on by a member, who gave an instance of "shady" business methods employed by one woman hawker, whose speciality was embroidery lines. It was stated that if the matter were taken up by the Hamilton Retailers' Association, solid support would be forthcoming from business men.