BUSINESS NOTES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12582, 1 October 1908, Page 7

BUSINESS NOTES.

On Saturday next, Messrs Williams and Harper will isell by auction at their mart a large quantity of unredeemed pledgees, on account ot Mr N. A. Christiansen. The sale ot these goods toinmenccs at 1.30 o'clock, and is entirely without reserve. This is a chance seldom offered to the public to get a barjjain of some sort at auction prices.

The Octobqr number of "Good Cheer," New Zealand's Popular Home Journal, is ju.-it to hand. This capital journal has liow made its sixth appearance, and there is every indication that the proprietors intend it to be worthy of tho Dominion. In it there is something for every member of a household, and the tone of the whole publication is of a high order. Ladiee are particularly well catered for. The- "Good Cheer" journal ia sent post free to any address ior the small sum of half-a-crown a year.

On and after February Ist, 1909, Jbhc maximum weight of any sack containing wheat, barley, or i>ats to b^ eanied by rail •will be 2001 bs. Any sack of grain over that >vei£ht will be charged lour times the e.-d-inary rate of freight.

The bell at the Fire .Brigade Station rang out an alarm of tire just after 3.20 thid afternoon. Several reels turned out in splendid time, but on arriving at the source of trouble^ — at the rear of a fruit shop opposite the Catholic Church — it was found that the services of the Brigade were not required, the fire, which was confined to a barrel of tar, having l.^en extinguished.

Everything joiuta it present to New South Wake enjoy ia;^ one cf the In 3t spring seasons it has had for years. There jire pa rtd of the rouatry. chieny awiy nit back lv the Western Division, that .iro as yet not reaping: the benefits of a good i?carfoii; but the copious rains which have fallen of lale over virtually the wliola of the State have removed all feelings of anxiety on the pnvt of the general oody of men on the land regarding the season's prospects, and given them entirely new heart.

New Zealand lost between. .£2,000,000 and .£3,000,000 by the drop in wool prices 'last year, and this fact is setting producers thinking. By competition amongst agents who are selling practically one brand of meat,, it is calculated that a respectable sum is lost to New Zealand ovi>r its meat trade, and this is raising again the question of co-operation amongst the freezing companies. In this connection Mr Stringer, secretary to the s Auck. land Farmers' Freezing Company, suggests that all the loss on wool, meat, i utter, hides, etc., could be saved *o the Dominion by the establishing of one *' ig distributing centre in England, or by selling all New Zealand produce through one house in London. This, he points out, would result in the increasing of the value of New Zealand's export trade by & very large amount. — 'Herald.