CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 29 December 1926, Page 6

CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES

(Per Press Association —Copyrip 1 LONDON, December ft 'Hie Mansfield coal on tiers’ ge>fl bonuses, with a gift of 10,000 I* 1 ” children’s boots enabled the m 1 ” 0 ’ spend a happy Christmas. , ■ Tradesmen report record takmSL PARIS. December A. Tho prevailing hard times. <> llf the over-rapid recovery of the o at ' took much- joy out of the Christo* festivities. Most Parisians were unable to the restaurants’ high prices, * feasted- at home. An unusually cold snap was «l*' enced. Tho Loire was froze ll the first time since the war. I*’*’ deaths occurred from cold in th o bo* Valley. A wave of unemployment » ning to be serious. French t”" facturers of many lines are nnal’l*® meet foreign competition. The factories at Roubaix and Aourc*l are working short time. A ’’ mul dismissed one thousand empbTwo thousand five hundred makers, and a thousand lacenw* 1 * are idle.