EMPIRE SHOPPING WEEK

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1930, Page 10

EMPIRE SHOPPING WEEK

SURPLUS EIGHT TO BE FREE. Arrangements for an Empire Week in Stratford from November 22 to 29 were advanced at a meeting of the committee yesterday. The secretary, Mr. D. Young, reported that he had received £l9 in payments for the window-dressing competition. An endeavour will be made to secure a total of £2O.

The borough electrical engineer, Mr. A. E. Mose, reported that the council would lend coloured lamps free of charge up to the limits of its stocks, about 500 lamps. The lamps would be issued pro rata, applications for them to be forwarded as soon as possible. The council would supply as much business lighting as the shopkeepers cared to use for the month of November charging at the figure used in October. That meant that all surplus above the shopkeepers’ ordinary requirements would be practically free. That applied to all business premises from Seyton. Street to Opunake Road. Mr. Moss said he would like to see Broadway brilliantly lighted from Sat-, urday night till after Empire Week. “This is a splendid offer and shows the interest that the Borough Council is taking in the enterprise,” said Mr. R. H. White, who moved a vote of thanks to /the council and to the engineer. The secretary of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association advised that he had forwarded a case of window display cards. Mr. Young reported that Mr. R. H. Hassall had agreed’to be judge for the window-dressing competition. Judging would be carried out on November 22, first day of the week, and windows entered in the competition would have to be ready for judging on that Saturday morning. Display signs drawing attention to the week and urging people to shop in Stratford will be erected over Broadway at each end of the town. The chairman (Mr. E. Carryer) reported that the committee had been granted the free use of the town hall for the social to be held on the Tuesday following the show.