NOT AFRAID OF WELLINGTON.
AUCKLAND CaN LOOK AFTER ITSELF. yßr Telegbai>h. — Si-eoial to The Post.] AUCKLAND, This Day. The Auckland merchants, while feeling that Mr. F. E. Baume only intended to convey a kindly warning when referring to Auckland and Wellington trade competition along the Main Trunk line in his speech at St. Benedict's Hall, oxpress themselves as quite confident that Auckland will more than hold its own in the trade war. One prominent merchant, speaking to a Herald representative, remarked that Auckland was able to compete with Wellington in commerce, and even to beat it along the Main Trunk, and ho instanced the fact that at Gisborne, Auckland merchants were underselling Wellington merchants and securing the trade. When the time came for a reckoning up, it would be found that Auckland had more than held its own, and, in spite of the refuted "smartness" of Wellington commercial travellers, the Auckland houses were going to secure the business. They did not fear all the competition or all the agents that Wellington could put into the Bold.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 106, 31 October 1908, Page 9
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176NOT AFRAID OF WELLINGTON. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 106, 31 October 1908, Page 9
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