SHOPPING METHODS

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 8

SHOPPING METHODS

THEATRE TICKETS WITH PURCHASES

(From "Tho Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 23rd October. Sydney's bargain hunters have been having the time of their lives during the last week. To give a fillip to trade, to help the public to balance its domestic budgets, "and to keep in employment a vast staff of counter hands, nine big city establishments, comprising one of its biggest shopping blocks, launched, in concert and along spectacular lines, a huge bargain sale drive, involving more than £1,----000,000 worth of high-class stock, much of it at prices below wholesale figures. It was these retailers' practical contribution, not without regard, of course, for their own interests, to the solution of the problem of bringing down prices to meetthe times. An intriguing feature of the drive was the presentation to the best bargain shoppers of £500 worth of tickets for admission to a musical comedy. In more prosperous days, windows would probably have been smashed in the onslaught on such a wealth of cheap yet high-class stock. As it was, however, the massed attack on these shops was quite sufficient to justify the campaign.

The Rev. Norman Burgess, of tho Congregational Church at Gore, has been appointed to succeed the Rev. I. Sarginson as minister of *""" Linwood Church, Christchurch.