EXCITED STAMP-HOLDERS.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 103, 29 October 1900, Page 6

EXCITED STAMP-HOLDERS.

Another lively scene was enacted at the Trading Stamp Company's depot in Willis-street this afternoon. Long before 10 to'clock in the morning a number of women assembled outside the premises Availing to reixchange their books ot stamps for the articles Avhieh aye supplied by the company, but Avere met by a Avntten notice on the door to the. effect that the shop could not be opened, until 2 p.m. Still, many of them Avaited all Ihroygh the morning, and between 1 and 2 o'clock the throng of Avomen over-floAA-cd the pavement into the roadway, Avhile a large concourse of spectators was also present to fl'see the fun." Shortly before 2 ".'clock the person in charge opened the doors, and in a tAvinkling the shop was filled Avith a surging mass of women, struggling to bo- the first to secure the articles Avhieh they expected to receive. The ,atteudant, however, found it impossible to do business under such conditions, and had to call the assistance of tlje .police. Sergt. Cruickshank and a " constable entered the shop, and tried to restore order, , but found the ta«k on© of considerable difficulty. "Why should we go out?" loudly queried one woman ; "our moneys all in here?" Another Avoman resolutely ne fused to go. She had come in from the country, and was not going aAvay empty -handed . At last^ how,ever, by diivb and cajolery, and a little force, most those in the shop were got outside, where they kept up an hicessant stream of talk and 1 bantered the constable in charge until he pathetically remarked to a bystander, . "What arc you to do Avith all these Avomen? Noav, if they were men, you would know hoAv to tackle them." There is every; indication of the attendants of the Trading Stamps Company having a veiy lively time before they close their business in Wellington.