The shops in Shanghai were opeu night and day, including Sunday, dodared Mr. Ashton Trotter, of Marton* who has just .returned from China. It was common to see as many people in tho streets at four in the morning as at midday. The heat was so oppressive, that the people seemed to come out at night to do ttieir shopping-. In the.good quarters the shops were "up to the minute,” and goods appeared to be cheap, but experience snowed them in most cases to be cheap and' nasty. His party kid an opportunity to travel inland, and they were impressed with the railway service, which was ahead of New Zealand’s. The trains went at great speeds and passengers received every attention.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19340912.2.153
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18500, 12 September 1934, Page 13
Word Count
121Untitled Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18500, 12 September 1934, Page 13
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in