INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 340, 16 March 1910, Page 5

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Hewitt's Pictures to-night, Tickets for the Irish na.tion.il concert and dance to be held in the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening are selling freely, and a large attendance is expected. A MUCH-TRAVELLED TARANAKI BUSINESS MAN. Mr. A. P. O'Leary, the well-known general manager of the Melbourne Clothing Company, has just returned from his fourth visit to the Old Country during the past six years. The main object of Mr. O'Leary's trips is to place his firm in direct touch with manufacturers, enabling goods to be landed at New Plymouth at the minimum of cost and free from all middlemen's profits, and in this respect he has been highly successful. Mr. O'Leary visiter! on various occasions Manchester, Leicester, Nottingham, Leeds, Bradford, Northampton, and other leading centres of ■English manufacture.. He also found time to visit Germany, Belgium, France and Italy. Mr. O'Leary speak? highly of the general tone of trade in Engiand and of the courtesy and kindness extended him in every way. Everywhere he found people interested in New Zealand and the doings of its people. While awav Mr. O'Leary purchased several thousands of pounds' worth of goods, the first shipments of which are now coming to hand. It is evident that the high reputation gained by the Melbourne Clothing Companv with the Tarutaki gubiic la to lfc well maintained.