GLEAMS IN THE CLOUDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1926, Page 6

GLEAMS IN THE CLOUDS

IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE

REPORTED IN CHRISTCHURCH (By Telegraph.—Bpecial to Th« Mall.) CHRTSTCHURCH". This Day. There is a more optimistic feeling abroad in wholesale and retail businesses, for by all accounts a wave of increasing trade is taking place. At least, men in warehouses and shops from whom a "Sun" man made inquiry professed to have noticed a revived demand. So strong has been the depression in trade that any better feeling should be noticeable at once. As yet, however, the improved demand does not apply to all trades or businesses. There arc several curious difference*. For example, butchers seem to have experienced no improvement, yet bakers reported greatly stimulated business. The baking trade, however, had suffered from the effects of cheap vegetables, for when vegetables are at a. iow price less bread is eaten. Grocers say that the public generally is not buying luxury classes of foodstuffs, and yet against that there are several businesses depending solely on a buoyant spending power on the part of the community in which it. is reported, and with every evidence of truth, that improvement has taken place. Undoubtedly gleams are appearing in tlw clouds.