CLOTHING TRADE SALES

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28451, 4 December 1957, Page 10

CLOTHING TRADE SALES

Reduction In 1956-5, I New Zealanders spent less | | money on clothing, other than • footwear, m rhe year ending [March 31 this year than they did lin the previous year, according to| |a leading article in rhe ‘New ’Zealand Draper.’ The actual 'amount of the decrease was ' £1.283.000 compared with an overall increase in retail spending of* [more than £6l million. | Stores in tne South Island, hnwtever, apart from those in ! ‘h*> r Christchurch or Dunedin urban | areas, showed a slight gain, of i i £22.000, rather than a loss. Retail : [hardware merchants, with a decrease in sales of about £500.000. ■ i were the only other stores to show r a decrease in trade. A recovery was apparent in the quarter ended June 30 this year, when totals retail clothing sale c showed an increase of £3i million over those for the previous quarter. In terms of rhe “average I iyear" • 1952-53» this placed clothing third on rhe list of most ■buoyant retail businesses, oehind .chemist shops and footwear stores., i la M.P.H. Limit For Railway.— I Tne Erlangen-Eschau narrow gauge railway has been con'ldemned to becoming what is ai- ; most certainly rhe world s slowes’ : railway by a recent Court order • The Court imposed a maximum speed of 10 miles, an hour on its ; ancient locomotives because the trails run on rhe public roads. The ‘[Court held Thar only - thus could ’■he trains be sure sroo when eve> ‘■'’s ’•»gh f way was ageing ‘hem ;