CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1926, Page 9

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

CATERING FOR THE CHILDREN. It is one month from Christinas Day to-day, and in preparation for the busy season to come the retailers of New Plymouth are stocking with goods for young and old. Toys, things that delight the juvenile heart, are perhaps more plentiful and of a wider range than tor many years past. Most of them were made in Germany. “Britain,” stated a vendor of toys to a News reporter yesterday, “is practically out of the market so far as toys are concerned. It is rarely that British made toys are offered at a reasonable price.” Britain certainly excels at making fur toys, teddy bears, golliwogs and animals, the reporter was told, but Germany holds a monopoly of dolls. Few Japanese toys are in evidence this year apart from celluloid dolls, all of which are of very moderate price. Mechanical toys, the most popular in the affections of the youngsters, are again much in evidence. Most of them are of British manufacture, but a large number of German make are to be seen. For the modest sum of from one to five shillings can be obtained some of the best ol them. Although it is rather early to say yet, shopkeepers are convinced that the sale of mechanical toys will be heavy this year, particularly as they are of a high standard. Particularly striking are the English fur toys which for quality are unequalled, although, compared with the prices of foreign made articles, their price is considerably higher.