CHRISTMAS TRADE.
PROSPERITY IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, Dec. 21. Christmas trade in Svdney promises to break all records, due to the prevailing prosperity, the excellent harvests, the absence of industrial troubles, nnd the recent wage increases. The chief department stores report unprecedented business and a regular wave of buying. Heads of the transport services also report a record exodus of holidaymakers. The Railway Department fears that it will be unable to cope with the holiday traffic. Aerial services were taxed to their utmost capacity two weeks ahead. New South Wales is attracting visitors from all States owing to the comparative immunity from infantile paralysis, which is affecting all States excepting Western Australia, where the Government recently imposed quarantine restrictions. HEAVY AIR MAIL.. Received December 22. 9.40 a.m. LONDON. Dec. 21. The Christmas mail carried by Imperial Airways this year is the heaviest despatched from England. The letters carried on the England-India-Australia air service weiehed 16.3001 b, as compared with 14,5901 b in 1936.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 21, 22 December 1937, Page 9
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162CHRISTMAS TRADE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 21, 22 December 1937, Page 9
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