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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1932, Page 4

“If the relief workers and others had in the past utilised their sections aS they are doing to-day every Chinese growing vegetables in the Dominion would have been forced out of business,” .said a New Plymouth fruiterer,to a reporter yesterday. He pointed out that vegetables were now being sold at low prices because so many • householders were growing their own.

. Like a rolling snowball, business ’ this week at Scanlans grows bigger and bigger each succeeding day nearer Xmas and will culminate in one gigantic avalanche on Xmas Eve. This is a reminder to patrons to shop early, for although the new store is enlarged and more convenient the assistants can give better service in the mornings and early afternoon.*

During the past two or three. days Christinas visitors have been beginning to arrive at the Belt Road camp, New Plymouth, in large numbers. According to the bookings there will be a fairsized capvas town by Boxing Day. Last year at that period there were Over |OO tents.