REGULATING TRADE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 73, 2 March 1916, Page 2

REGULATING TRADE.

[To The Editor Stuatkokd Post,} > Sir,—Might I suggest tlie authorities taking some action in preventing or at least regulating, the sale oi shoddy imitation goods which might be offered by unscrupulous travelling I traders for the express purpose of extracting considerable sums of money at little expense from unsuspecting people. Attracted by misleading advertisements, and with the aid of a few stock phrases and tricks bordering on the .confidence method, the public are sometimes induced to buy rubbish of very doubtful-origin. There ure im\n possibly with no stake in the country, tldV responsibility of any kind, armed with nothing pipre than a license, a few "runners up," and P promise in the hope of warding off a riot, to return at an early date, who skip from one town to another, Show time, or any other time, scooping the pool and leaving little or no value behind. In the meantime, the legitimate shopkeeper, who caters in a decent manner for the public, and asBJigt the town's finance to no small degreet, has (along with a lamenting public) U> "gl'in and bear" the performance, 1 thjnfc the wholesalers who unconsciously supply the "bit of bait" necessary to gu}| (put yei-v seldom offered for §ajg) should discorp tinue the practice in favor of bona . f i cl t' retailers, and that borough council?; ft nd .similar bodies should demand sureties that goods advertised should be as roprawHfeKl. Thanking you for space.—l urn. etc, MILKING MACHINE,