THE REFORMATION OF BUSINESS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9100, 28 May 1908, Page 4

THE REFORMATION OF BUSINESS.

There is an age of reforms, from the re-modelling of international customs down to the re-eastinv? of the business methods ox communities. The reforms attemnterl in the latter sphere are of a somewhat dynamic character, but communities are more easily reformed that nations. Jn Maaterton, as elsewhere, we ha/e seen the butcher rise up and rebel against the cashless credit customer, and the baker has followed suit. Grocery combines are threatened and the ultimate outcome may be a sort of inter-business federation embracing all local retailers. This, of course, is not probable, but the question irresistibly presents itself, would such an era as a no-credit age be a

hardship in a community? We find ! that bakers it) Palmerston North and Wellington are delighted with the working so rar of the cash-on-the-nail system. We have not yet heard whether the baker's gain has meant the grocer's; or milkman's loss, but such should not be the case. What is the object after all of the longauffering, bookdebt burdened vendor of bread and scones? Simply to enforce a domestic discipline of a most necessary order —in the financial department ol the household. A good many people will, in the long run, perhaps, thank the no-credit dealer for his inexorableness, as nothing tends so much to a want of frugality in manhood —and, be it said, with respect, frail womanhood —as the knowledge that things can be "put own" at the store. We are all staggered occasionally by the length and depth of one tradesman's bill or another, but the tradesman, surely, would also sooner that we did not get it.