RUSSIA WANTS BUSINESS MEN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8940, 4 December 1905, Page 5

RUSSIA WANTS BUSINESS MEN

Thus writes "Smiler" Hales:— "l would advise men who are in a small way of business to strain a point now ; don't wait until the cha-nce has passed. Pac* a small bag, get a passport, take steamer from London Bridge Stairs, and skip over to St. Petersburg and have a look round. When I came across it cost me about £6 10s, and took about five days to do the trip from city to city. I think the fores by boat as a little higher now. When you pack your bag, put as little British prejudice in as possible— you can do without it. You will find the Russian merchant a delightful fellow, . courteous and obliging, and very eager to know all you can tell him about London. Leave your preconceived notions about the country behind you. When you get there, look round carefully, push your business as the Germans push theirs, go on to Moscow, and from there to Irkutsk, visit the big towns en route ; be ready to buy or 6ell ; use a little common sense and civility, and you will find every police officer in the , country willing to help you as a London i constable is to keep an, American visitor here. I never had a bit of trouble all the way between the Mongolian frontier and St. Petersburg, neither will you. If you can afford it, open shops there, push your trade and nush it hard ; lot loose some of the smart, brainy, commercial travellers that one sees so often in English cities— they-11 soon -ick up the language, and the trade too if you give them the chance. Don't stay at home and whine about dull times and the dread you have of the slack- • ness of the coming winter. Get up and 1 hustle, and let your trade rivals see that ' John Bull, shopkeeper, is alive, and able to hold his own with anything they breed in Berlin or New York."