GOOD BUSINESS REPORTED.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20729, 14 December 1932, Page 13

GOOD BUSINESS REPORTED.

TRADE. O m MAINTAINED $ LOWER PRICES. til; in CHRISTCHURCH. *■)! Christmas business is reJfpl*Ute managers of large shops the opinions printed bethe general con!?2jHrade. The public demand is goods of high quality, and jyETpitsent conditions purchasers mtisfv both those desires *3s'ttfl turnover seems to be the j|£mJ^'year's, more goods being jfL make up that value. aS.jf "the present our sales esjffaf year's, and that looks encour*^p iSS id the manager of a big '"Business received a setreeent statement by the jfjppiroster: but since December more than recovered, not only to our ChristnSw*"*s* also to our branelies '|sMffiiiir definite that the public 'JaKwer- goods, and they are befor wonderfully well The are doing very well to atigT&e goods at the present low jSsgfeij; wages are down and manuStaKae (Mfcs have .been lowered, and factors are having their !§l|lttdtteing prices, and the genefffljastioin. of this process may rel^S -swing of the pendulum toSEpprity- There is no great j£Bk.-&» public taste—the people articles of former difference oeing that l|jpf* them more cheaply.'' About Normal. ob the whole is about norJjiphg&mDer, with the same condi2i£»F those-of last year," reported ZfEouttE of .a large drapery firm. aESfc'Keaerally are buying cauand the purchases llggjsymateiy the same in value as though more merSaJfisWai be sold to hold the Stages;. Any rise in prices overjgaßtNw' •fm«"ftdiately reflected in sJ£j.p W fftj n f fl ia New Zealand, for S| families need so many things, 2fite»r aeed them urgently. Once fc tw»g pew* »a be improved ifill get an immediate upforcing (he situation more generOr, {his exeeuHre' deplored the tenjoer of those in lesponsible quarters Mtnee statements likely to cause misarkg is the miads of the people, thus fettering the recovery of the Dominm't internal trade. VMr Forbes is taken very seriously is*m days throughout the country, pertopt more seriously than he knows," w said. "His last utterance gave busise&s a setback. Of eourse, his position ■ one of extreme responsibility, and ve know .flat ftam $« jrary beginning Ime hidden the true eople of New Zearitnout a doubt, he intry good service, has passed for the simistic bulletins. Mr Forbes should >£ us are doing—ile and meet each they arise. Toall, dawn a better te. Jptimism. uertain —the wholß vith gloom —everydoses of it or abit' a protest," he Zealand we should gh prices are desig conditions are 1 everything points at The farmers re by greatly in>f their farms, and should help them until a strengthen>f the world places arable condition." g and a cheerful the part of the by the assjstantof drapers and nd," ho said, "we rateful that such m, though it repreised turnover with 'he people are all Christmas, and I ressed spirit. The lg power of the ced by the general re actually selling ar prices. Speakseems to be just toward spending—i willing to spend n possibly afford, year being for the y Trade, je grocery concern b grocery business , variety of trade jrent from that of ontinued, "w are I of that Chrißtmas st year, and prob- >. I think all the ily surprised at the the typical Christhad mentioned, he ties of hams, which ristmas line, were of last year. The such as muscatels on steadily, and iry was going out bookselling finii a picking up again ck, and was showhe figures for "Deforward to a very continued. "We rably more eusare not spending t of money. Books as gifts—general books, etc., are is that toys are s as a result of in education, of 'W heard, there is rm sets, in which wildings aud stock piece. There are which are provropaganda has not [y of toy soldiers indeed, there is a tver. Mechanical ts are iu brisk