TRADE BRISK IN AUCKLAND.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 9 January 1911, Page 4

TRADE BRISK IN AUCKLAND.

! "BUOYANT FINANCES." .« . (By Telegraph-Special CorrcsDondent.) Auckland, January. 8. ■The Christmas and New Year trade has been most gratifying to the tradespeople ill Auckland. The most pleasing, feature about the season has been the widespread effect .of what Sir Joseph Ward'would call the "buoyant'state of the finances." The good times have not been confined, to any one particular branch of business, and this is taken. as one of the surest signs of the solidity of the district. Of course the rush of business is over, and things are beginning to settle down into their ordinary routine, but there is yet an unusually large number of visitors in town, tempted doubtless to prolong their stay by the glorious weather we have been enjoying, and their presence is still felt by tho retailers in certain businesses, such as the jewellers, for instance. In the grocery trade business is somewhat brisker just now than it usually is in January, but whether this means a permanent improvement, or simply that the holiday influx has not yet returned remains to be seen. The clothing houses and drapery establishments report a satisfactory amount of business, and speaking generally Queen Street retailers are quite., content with their prospects'just now..