COUNTRY STOREKEEPERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5318, 5 July 1892, Page 3

COUNTRY STOREKEEPERS.

TO THE EDITOr.. >.8,-1 fi.ive j ieen patiently waiting to •il our country storekeepers would indications of following the ?. 4 set by the Oamaru grocers and settlers. But no, their prices the laws of the Medes and fixed and unalterable. The storekeeper stands in much the as his Oamaru brother. He ,j- e ™ l ps his next-door neighbor sendwimaru or Du nedin for his monthly •.'H.ind on this account alone, to say of it, there is a certain amount Mess existing between the store-g-Md his former customers. Tfwtlj- the price of a case of kerosene 0 gantry townships, the more dis- ° m °t« than twenty miles from ! t7' * ,ot k close to the railway, j.-, 3 ? n< * 18s respectively, the same i-3 obtainable in Oamaru at 12s, «the price of small articles of less t use the difference is still greater. [' the price to customers who reared to pay at any time, and j. e , te cost of delivery, j storekeepers, when spoken jj , r I'rices, complain of the 'Hm- ?'* * )Ut - notice at the same ij. ,l "wy fail to encourage a t-u>h t' le ' r customers, whom r ta,;lnc i' ll 'y sound, finding it t^le ' r accounts without ijjjf Ji them at least a time or two. rßint> L 8 business not & L # , r o J ,eni^ons the storeit L tends to prevent settledistricts. No wonder i? ln . the country hesitate to "niilies to live in a country kto ft? err * n 5 weekly or monthly iio t - ' ra ?? u ' to the greater disadvan- * «iV C^ e t ' le country. !5j • s l>e»king for myself and many iccji J . ' ,e v ery glad to patronise 5a ff ,w e . t ' lers I could only ob!as elsewh^'^ 05 or near the same you in anticipation, I ain, etc., A Coo'tky Settler.