A LIVELY CHRISTMAS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 74, 20 December 1919, Page 4

A LIVELY CHRISTMAS

GOOD FOR'' TRADE AND TRAVEL. •\ltliougli tho weather is as. freakish ass over, and blue skies. and summer sunshine are but chance acquaintances, Wellington tell: who parade the sheets of the city in their happj; tllo . u^' lv are not worrying. There us eydently a fixed determination on the pait or almost everyone to make tins a "{"v and truly" happy Coristmas. That is the spirit of the jostling crowds tluvt ar> thronging < the footpaths where.tho shops are thickest, .and tradespeople agreo that this spirit is being rellected in t^Bvcry thing is much dewer" on° dealer in fancy goods, ' but, bless jon, that does not seem to be troubling the people in the least. Last year I had a record Christmas, but the turno\ei of the last season is nothing compared with what it is this year., And what ' is more, everyone wants the good stuff, eun if it is costly. The war or its after math has taught them that the good stuff is always the most economical in the end. Look at three-toys? _Un b„l costly toys-run up to toilguinea* Selling, whv of course they re selling! Wish T had some more—they can tbo rot Tovs at anything from five to ten Guineas! 'Rather different from the timo when vou and I were hoys, eh? Onn'of the jnlliest features of tho present time is the mod rush for train nnrl acconimotmnom • the whole day Htrouirh tho officials of the Union Steam Ship Company <?» douMe and treble rows of people wartrng moic or less patiently their turn to „o tickets for steamers bound north and fouth, and almost all day yesterday a nueiie stood outside the Uaihvaj DepartS bureau in Willis Street, keen on » trip away or "on getting home for Christmas." These aro busy, mhful times.