SPEEDY SERVICE
Modern Business Methods Striking evidence of the speedy service that can be given to clients by enterprising business firms using fast air travel was provided on a recent public holiday. A confectioner in Picton found that hits seven-year-old commercial refrigerator had gone out of order and he was faced with considerable loss of ice-cream business on the eve of his best .selling days of the year. A telephone call to Wellington located the manager of the firm representing the well-known make of commercial refrigerator in question, and he in turn located his engineer, who was- at a suburban beach.
Arrangements were promptly made to secure a seat in the. Union Airways’ Cook Strait plane for Blenheim and Nelson, leaving Wellington at 4.30 —the last seat available —and the engineer arrived at Picton and completed repairs within a few hours, to the relief of the ice-cream vendor, who might have missed several day« of valuable sales.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 93, 14 January 1936, Page 2
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157SPEEDY SERVICE Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 93, 14 January 1936, Page 2
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