HECTIC XMAS BUYING COMES TO END

Northern Advocate, 27 December 1937, Page 6

HECTIC XMAS BUYING COMES TO END

Drunk people, sober people, merry people, a few long-faced, most beaming profusely, laughing children, crying children, babies in arms, prams and push-chairs, men. women and children disguised and natural, Maoris, pakehas, young and old, pushing, jostling. shoving, .heaving, sweating-—a few managing to buy. This was Christmas Eve. And was it a memorable eve? Just ask Whangarei’s businessmen. They haven’t recovered from the beneficence of the. buying public yet. Their only complaint from a financial point of view, is that such windfalls don't happen always. As for the assistants, those of them who have recovered from the mad hurly-burly of last week’s rush are praying that someone will abolish once-a-year Christmas and have it once in 10 years instead. The rest are still fanning themselves back to life. They will need to conserve their energy and recover what they have lost. The summer sales are not far elf. Yes, we will vote Christmas, 1937, the bumper it was prophesied to be. | And then some! * In the meantime, the indulgences of the past two days have somewhat upset our individual equilibriums, not only physically but financially. However, we are confident that I what has been undone can quite easj ily be done up again with the inspiri ation of the New Year before us.