TRAVELLERS' SAMPLES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1891, 28 October 1913, Page 8

TRAVELLERS' SAMPLES.

. A BACK TO THE WAREHOUSE. About 11.40 a.m. yesterday about a . hundred strikers who were keeping their "J' vigil near the main entrance to the . Queen's Wharf were rather astonished J" ! to see, driving through the crowd, ail {L e express well piled with heavy cane 111 baskets. So was tho aged J, e ' driver of the vohicle that he had almost . got through the press of tho crowd bo- J 1 , 1 ' fore anyono thought to stop him. . "Here, hold on, matoy, what have you "' a got thero P" said a lusty voice, and at n ." tho sound a doiien men became activo. s "It's personal luggago!" said someone. "No, it isn't," yelled another, "they're f travellers'samples!" At this stago ono ! of tho pickot-sergoants, who evidently J lll had concluded that the baskets con- ? tained personal luggago, stood on the •y cart, and road from a paper that personal luggago was not to be interfered with. This ordor had been issued by the Strike Committee. "But this ain't personal luggage—it's travellers' samples!" said two or three of the crowd. "Havo a look!" Tho look satisfied all that the baskets contained samples, • whereupon tho driver was sternly commanded to take them back to the warehouse whence they camo, which instruction was obeyed without domur. Tho baskets were ad- ; dressed in the namo of a passenger, |, e j who was proceeding on to Nelson b,v 0 f the Mapourika, which steamer left for en( Nelsonat 12.45 p.m. ,< of The incident shows at a glanco how ox! trade is being hampered by tho litl Hero was a commorcial traveller pro- arc bably with his new season's samples, vei His clients ahead would in all probabil- wli ity have been advised by circular of his Th corning, and tho tour would all be ar- "si ranged; then suddenly everything col- the lapses through the action of a few law- Fa less men. gaj

STOCKS OP FLOUR. ENOUGH HERE FOR A MONTH. In view of tho fact tliat no cargo lias been worked on steamers in Wellington sinco Thursday last, some inquiries were made yesterday as to what AVellington's position was respecting our stocks. Everything—oven strikers —liavo to eat to live. With the exception of a littlo Hour imported from Australia, and a modicum from Canada, Wellington's Hour comes from southern ports— Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, and Dunodm, and has to be brought hero in stoamors. Steamers with flour liavo arrived in Wellington since the cessation of work on the wharves, but the strikers have not allowed anyone to liaudle it, and state that they do not intend to do so until a settlement is arrived at. That may or may not bo —it all depends.. In view of the rather curious position that has been brought about, a Dominion representative made a few inquiries yesterday as to flour stocks. Olio of the bakers, with one of the biggest bread businesses in tho city, stated that he probably had enough flour in stock to last him three months, by which time he opined that the strike will _be well settled. He vouchsafed tho information that the averago Wellington baker usually kept a month ahead of it, and would not bo at all put out by the nondelivery of cargoes for two ot three weeks to come, by which time strikers (if still on strike) would be as keen as anyone to get at the flour cargoes of the steamers in port. Undelivered shipments of flour arrived by tho Taviuni and Kapiti, and thore was a fair quantity in the sheds on the wharf.