DULL DAYS FOR TRADERS.
• •> (By Telegraph.—Special CorrespSndent.) Christchurch, Miiy 8. A town traveller for one of the bip; merchant firms told n' "Press" reporter on Saturday that iio wis convinced things were i.'ot good m Christchurch at present. '.During the past two years he had paid considerable attention to tho way in which shopkeepers, whether small or great, spoke about their businesses, and taking what thty said, in conjunction with his sale-bonk, he was forced to the belief that things hailnot been brilliant duriug Hint period. Kow ho feared that instead of hearing merely that things were not good he would hi?ar that they are .bad. Already shopkeepers from whom lie had never before heard ' a grumble were complaining of a falling-oil' in cash trade beyond what is always to ibe expected at the' beginning of winter. * ,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1743, 7 May 1913, Page 11
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137DULL DAYS FOR TRADERS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1743, 7 May 1913, Page 11
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