ORGANISATION IN NEW ZEALAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8863, 22 July 1890, Page 2

ORGANISATION IN NEW ZEALAND.

(Australian (Jrocera' Journal.)

As ■will be seen from the letter of our New Zealand correspondent, published elsewhere,tho members of the trade in New Zealand hove nfc last combined for the common good, and wo think they are to be heartily commended for their far-sightedness, and worthy to be held up as [an example to their brethren in the other colonies. Amongst other things they have agreed uot to ticket goods, and hare arranged with tho merchants that tho latter are uot to supply grocers who persist in ticketing after due notice has been given by the association. In no colony of the group was organisation more needed than in New Zealand, for it can truly be said that grocers had on "awful" time of it during the worst years of the depression in that colony. "Every pne," co to-speak, lived on then), and fchough they were kept employed wfienmost other tradesmen were idle,and did an apparently ('roaring" business, they S'weiiti bung" all the same with heartrending frequency owing to their desire to secure the public custom at any price, and to uudereell their rival?. People who could not pay, and never intended to pay, were trusted to large amounts, and in consequence the schedules of the bankrupt grocers frequently showed in the larger towns three, four, arid sometimes even six thousand pounds worth of book debts, and evidenced the fgct that unwittingly the grocers were "suppotters of tho people." This miserable state of affairs will be quickly remedied by the new association, snd men can enter the grocery trade with a tolerable ctitainly of being able to make a decent living in it, and perhaps something more. When will grocers in the other Australian colonies follow the example of their New Zealand brethren and combine like rational men for the, common good? . ■ >f