TRADE AND LABOUR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 922, 15 September 1910, Page 7

TRADE AND LABOUR.

YCONDITIONS IN- WELLINGTON. : :■ ; During-the 'month; (says' the: Labour JouTnal). shopkeepers generally' haVp complained.of.the dullness.of ; {tade; but all ,appear.: to..anticipate .ari,'early improvement. :;The weather for the last five coniseciltiyd. Saturdays .has;be6li: boisterous :arid wet; arid, as shopkeepeni usually get -best-returns from- Saturday's -trade, con--6iderable Joss of business has undoubtedly, oecirred on' this-accennt;," August is - ÜB'tmllyi a quiet; month T in : the clothing !aridiMapery:.shops,-:and j-expectetL when,-, the ;;new:seasori's goods are;dperied; , ' Boot "shops have been fairly jbusj;„-vTrade: Oias. boen -normal in; the < prdyisiori sh6ps;;btiteompetition Ms -very Ikeeri. - .This ;is': particularly noticeable with; butchers, . atii - 'several ..busi-iesses : have.;;closed'; on ..that :account;■• At time of; ; writiugVther6Yare. : n« less than fourteen; butchers on; the employment-book of /.the union. ' The'baking trade is still slack,,:nine men ;being reported''• idle. Manufacturers generally rep6rt a cbntinu-ance'-i-of fair trade,';.chiefly, 'bootmakers,' arid clothing: arid woollen factories. There . hasY.beeri an'unexpected revival in-the building trades, and-the reported slump has;fortunately disappeared...Taken altogether,-, reports, generally, are very hopeful, and there•: is now.-every reason to anticipate a.much brighter state of trade arid; business, than,has obtained for the past three:months... ;- .':