The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1911. BUSINESS ENGAGEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 94, 10 June 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1911. BUSINESS ENGAGEMENTS.

Under tbe above heading the “Mercantile Gazette” deals with a matter of some interest, and contends that business men are becoming very lax in their business engagements. Our contemporary continues:—“Wo do not moan their financial engagements, but their ordinary every-day business appointments. ‘See mo at II to-morrow morning,’ is often said to a caller on the head of a business house. The call is made the next day at the appointed hour, and the .answer is ‘I am too busy now, see mo at this afternoon,’ and at 3 o’clock another postponement has to be suffered. We have known cases whore engagements have been made and postponed every day in the week, and that with tiie same individual. Some make engagements with the fixed intention of keeping thorn, but find now circumstances ai iso to necessitate postponement. In such cases ample apologies are tendered and one feels satisfied that tbe postponement was unavoidable. Others make engagements in an offhand way and will keep them if they can, but don’t much care if they arc not kept. Such men have no right to be classed as business men—they are time-wasters, and a close scrutiny of their businesses will reveal considerable waste, because they have no system in handling their a flairs. There is another class of business man ton weak in character to refuse to make an appointment—-they don’t like to hurt the feelings of others, and so they readily assent to an engagement and deliberately break it. There are scores of business men in New Zealand who arc chronic offenders in tin’s respect. The policy, as a business policy, is bad and vicious. An appointment when made should bo respected and if there is any risk of the engagement not being kept, full apology should be tendered. There is no excuse, indeed, if is most reprehensible, to keep a caller ‘on a string.’ but .. imo business, people think it very clever to do so. They think differently when tliev are at the wrong end of the string.”