"*ln the course of) an article on the Christmas shopping trade, th® Christchurch Star, says " Shopkeepers # ''> the curious public preferences and aversions'" to national pro- ; .ductions. Skm mention the word Jap- ’ -ivrtese to most people now and they 1 . won’t listen to you,.” said a wellknown retailer. This seems to be the general experience among Ohirist- - church fancy goods shops. A wholesaler said there x would always be a „- certain "proportion of' buyers who -woufS buy an article of whatever t'/ manufacture if it was cheap. One ' could not beat the Japanese fpr penny,’ twopenny, and threepenny / " toys. There are some Japanese novel- • Me? which have, good sale, possibly " they are’not made elsewhere -and are pretty. ’ Another aspect of Y.-’-’the psychology of the buying public IgJisi ’the gradual disappearance of to German-made fancy Hagoods and toys.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4502, 11 December 1922, Page 3
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