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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1923, Page 8

; j Auckland is over-run . with hawkers, . house-to-house canvassers and people of that ilk, and long-suffering housewives . to say nothing of'their husbands, are | I becoming more than impatient over the , constant efforts made to make them pur- | chase articles for which they have no ;■. need, states the "New Zealand Herald." , In any street and any suburb.on almost any day except Sunday, pedlars, may be • tound plying their business, and, on the principle under which dropping water wears away stone, they apparently succeed in making a living. As far as most householders, are concerned, the reception these hawkers receive often depends upon, the state of one's liver and the state of the family exchequer. One > should imagino that a .Monday is not a ; good day for the doorstep warehouse, and.probaWy.lnday afternoon finds.most ' Hf W'f V<£7 small serves of coin i of : ..the-tealm. The soft-hearted person is i most.to, be pitied. A melancholy, face and a. hard-iip story have a wonderful ■ effect upon- these folk, who usually are 1-, not able.to regard the hawker in the • same light as they regard the ordinary' shopkeeper. Some women who are quitfi Ik ww" g° ,elsewhere" when they think that a reel of cotton is too dear-in a shop, lose all their-commercial courage when confronted at their back door By an. individual who has the art of creating sympathy.: . .•. . . ° i^Zi'^T?' fessep, vice-chairman of j the Meat Board/was on a visits to 1 Mas^ terton yesterday. It is understood' that , Mr. Jeasep may join the board of directors of the Wairarapa Frozen Meat Company. :. Advice has been received by Mr H Desborough manager of the WeiWton branchh of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son, stating that the whole of. the firm's staff at Yokohama, with the exception on* who was on holiday, were killed in the earthquake. The staff numbered 25. - .■■■•. i ■ The ■ proposal to establish a radium | department in connection with the Christchurch Hospital was advanced * stage'at the meeting of the North Civ Urbury Hospital Board this week, when I th^ Rev. J. K." Archer moved that the I board should consider a proposal to i raise £10,000 or over for the formaI tion of a radium department in connection with the institution. The mat-: ter has been before the board for some time, says a Press Association message. and full information ia being obtained' from Home concerning benefits n{ radium. The board decided to give conUidoi'iUau to Mj:,. Archer's proponl.