SLACKNESS IN THE TAILORING TRADE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1909, Page 8

SLACKNESS IN THE TAILORING TRADE.

To .the tightness of the money market is attributed the slackness which prevails in ' the tailoring trade in New Zealand at the present time. A Wellington employer told a Post reporter to-day that things in his line are not nearly so good now as they were at this time last year, and, in his opinion, no improvement can be expected in the near future. On the contrary, ho believed that business will be even slacker during the winter than it is now. It is undeniable, he says, that there is lessmoney in circulation now than for some years, and of course master tailors are feeling the pinch just the same as other business people. Mr. P. L. Muir, secretary of the Wellington Tailors' Union, has written to the British press, warning intending -tailor emigrants from coming to New Zealand at present. He states that during 1908 trade irom the tailor's point of view was bad, and the outlook is still far from piomising. He predicts that during 1909 many a tailor will be earning very poor wages, and he cannot advise any Home tailor i.o come to New Zealand this year.