THE CREDIT SYSTEM.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 1 February 1913, Page 4

THE CREDIT SYSTEM.

AFFECTS A MARTON OHINAMA

"SOME PEOPLE TOO SLOW; SO NO PAY AT ALL."

(From Our Travelling Reporter ) MARTON, January 31 John Chinaman, like his iPr-esbyter mix brother, knows how many bean make fire, and he is aware a^o tha too much credit to customers is n< good for the main tenancy of a ban] balance. At Marton there is a Celes tial firm that trades as Lum Kee— the name of the original founder of th business, who, by the way, is now en joying in the Flowery Land thejtffct* iortune ho made out of fruit and v«ge table* at Marton. Lum Kee's busines, is now controlled by 0119 "Charlie ' jui<l a more popular Chinaman doe. not live. In fact, he was so popula that his trad© increased very largely and so did his book debts to such &i extent that it worried him. Not fo j long, .however. "Charlie" had w> de lairo to fac,o the D.0.A., nor did h {want to be deprived of taking ihis lit I tla wife liome some day, so he hurried Ty mado up his mind to leave Marto» H<? stormed his round, sold his' horsee and carts, and he intends to start bud ue?s in Wellington, where he is not s well-known for the good-heairted fel , low he is. "Too much tic, no goo< , some people. Too slow -bo1 nay; lot no pay at all. Fruit too much'mone r to give 'way. Marton all licht. bu me no want keep books," said Charti to mo.to-day. "Me go to Wellington Plenty cash there," added the disciplof Oonfucious. Charlie leaves at th beginning of next week. He is not th * only one -who complains of the credi 'system in the count iy districts.