"Business in the pawnbroking line i 9 scarcely flourishing at the present time; but it is just the lull before the storm. We 're waiting for the races. Wjith us Grand National week is harvest week". With these words a Christchurch pawnbroker summed up the ruling conditions and prospects of I his business (relates the "Lyttelton | Times"). He made no secret of the | fact that trade was not at its best. . At this tim.e of the year there never is much doing, he explained, and he smiled optismistically, as he contemplated the rich harvest he would reap during race week. The first day is generally dull as, far as pledging is concerned, but from the second day, ! and thereafter until the conclusion of ' the races business in the pawnbroking I line is anything but dead.
It costs three eighths of a penny to one penny per dozen to preserve eggs with Shurland's Egg Preservative. Small tins sufficient for 14 dozen eggs.
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Northern Advocate, 14 July 1925, Page 3
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