TRADE IN DECEMBER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 35, 24 January 1912, Page 4

TRADE IN DECEMBER.

I'Voi'.i a business point of view December lias, according to the ‘‘lad our Journal,” just issued, proved a most •>xar.j).- 1 ating a n 1 disappointing month 'to shopkeepers generally. “Although it is now well into sun’inior, there has been practically no spoil of line weather,” says the Journal. “Through not being aide to clear their spring and summer goods in the usual season, many traders will suffer a severe loss. Business during the first half of the month was dislocated by the elections. In the second half there was an abnormal activity, which, however, was seriously checked by the wretched weather. But for this handicap business in the shops (although confined to

the hitter half of the month) would have constituted a record for December. This certainly indicates there is a plentitudo of money, and, given climatic conditions suitable lor spending purposes, business prospects lor tno next month or so may bo said to Indistinctly hopeful. The building trades are reported busy. Mechanical engineering is fairly quiet, but all other manufacturing trades have been active.”