TRADE PROSPECTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 3310, 1 May 1909, Page 6

TRADE PROSPECTS.

“Trade generally is in a much improved condition throughout New Zealand,” said the manager of a wholesale firm doing business' all over the Dominion, in Auckland, on Monday. ‘ln the provinces there is a generally improved tone, the season has been a good one both from a pastoral, agricultural and dairying standpoint, and the time of monetary stress seems to be pretty well over. This applies to those districts where rural pursuits are followed, but our travellers report to us that there is little or no improvement in the mining towns. The reason for this is hard to ascribe, but it is nevertheless a fact. There is no doubt that conditions all along have been better in Auckland than any other part of the Dominion. We have endless applications from the South asking to find positions in the Auckland province, which shows conclusively what the position is in the southern centres. So, even if we have not been getting all we want in the province, we at least know that we are better off in Auckland than they are in the south.” Another merchant said that in his opinion we had come to the bottom of things. There was no doubt that we had been right down on commercial bedrock for some time past, but we were now on the turn of the tide, and our information from every quarter justifies the predictioh that there is a good time ahead. “There has been,” he continued, “a prolific season in all parts of the Dominion, and the markets are holding their own so that the financial position throughout the country is satisfactory.”