BOOT TRADE PERTURBED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20043, 4 September 1920, Page 9

BOOT TRADE PERTURBED.

ONE FIRM CUTTING PRICES BEYOND REASON. To buy boots in tho regular old fashioned way, and then to find a competitor selling the same lines below your cost price is enough to perturb anybody. And this Is the position in the boot trade to-day. By taking advantage of the unsettled conditions in Australia and "snapping up" two complete stocks of footware at a below cost figure, Stewart Robinson is able to Hood this city with high-grade footwear of every description at prices below wholesale cost. There’s a regular rush at Stewart Robinson’s shop in Cashel Street for high-grade ladies’ shoes in all the newest stylos. Many of these that regularly bring 42s 6d, are being sold as low as 26s 6d and 27s 6d a pair. For men he oilers wonderful value in men’s tan welted boots at 95s and 99s Cd a pair. Many people are availing themselves of this special purchase to lay in stocks of boots for many months to come. 1

A meeting of tho Grand Lodge of Australasia, 1.0.0. F., will, be held in Dunedin, commencing on October 20. A Dunedin telegram states that the Otago collection week in aid of tho women and children of Central Europe realised Til ,230. In addition TJLHK) is to come froom Oamaru district The Christchurch Starr-Bowkott Building Society held a meeting last evening in the Caledonian Society's Hall for the purp use of disposing of two appropriations of .CIOOO each, by ballot and sale. Thu ballot resulted in ball No. -152 being drawn, the shares in the cluster being held by one shareholder. The sale resulted in !t premium of Too 12s Cd being obtained. At ihe Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court Ibis morning, before Captain R. Hatchwell and Knight, J. I’.’a, a first offender for drunkenness, was convicted and lined 5», m default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Charles Henry Morgan, a fireman off tho Leitrim, was charged with drunkenness and with making use of obscene language. Jl (; was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and fined 20a, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, for tlie*nse of obscene language. A large quantity of oversea mail matter is expected to reach New Zealand next week. The R.AI.S. Tahiti, which is duo at Auckland on Thursday from Vancouver, has 1475 hags of mail from the United Kingdom, Canada and United States of America for all parts of the Dominion. Tho R.M.S. Tofna, duo at Wellington on Saturday from San Francisco, has 1362 bags of parcel mail for New Zealand. The last two women of the staff which engaged with the Railway Department at Christchurch for careleaning work, in order to release men for active service, left the Department's employ to-day. Tho occasion was taken by their fellow-workers to make tho departing members, Mrs E. E. M. Simpson and Mrs M. Bruce, a notes each, in recognition of (heir note* to each, in recognition of their service wad goed-fslbwilup.