BUSINESS NOTES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2465, 1 April 1909, Page 5

BUSINESS NOTES

A purebred Shorthorn hull, suitable for a dairy farm, .is advertised for sale. Application is to be made to Rcpougaere Station. It is announced that AlisFLumi has resumed her dressmaking classes. A thoroughly experienced groom and coachman advertises in this -issue tor a situation.

For Chronic Chest Complaints, AYpods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is fid and 2s 6d. . .... Owing to the slackness m the muldmg trade, the supply of bricks m A\ ellmgton is greater than the demand (says the '“Post”). Bricks, which were selling at -52 s 6d per thousand a year, or two a £o are now fetching only nfls tho. lowest price ruling for many years. __ Puny boys and girls need carerul attention. Nothing is quite so good for them as Stearns’ AViue, which makes now blood, sbarpons tlioir appotito, and restores childhood s happy vigor. Apparently an excellent relationship is growing up between employers and employed in Christchurch, llio Hon. J. Barr, M.L.C.. when in AVellington, informed a “Press’" representative that•ouciliation is tlie watclnvard. The unions have met the employers in private conference without even the intervention of the Conciliation Council in some eases, and there is a very general desire, Air Barr says, to avoid the necessity of going before the Arbitration Court. This spirit will make for expeditious settlement of disputes, and the avoidance of strained relations. Some two years ago the notion thatgrapes could be imported from Australia and sold in AVellington shops at (id per pound was scouted by some. The Commissioner of South Australia at'the New Zealand Exhibition (Air J. Scott), who was largely instrumental in lifting the restriction on grapes from his State, ;• was quite positive that it could be done, and that with profit, and quoted" the price at which Australian grapes could be sold in London in justification of liis statement. Air Scott’s prediction has come true. For nearly it week past " states “The Times” grapes of splendid quality have been retailed in AA’ellington at fid. per pqund, and a larger variety at Sd' per pound —prices at which Xe w Zealand grapes have never been sold in the ordinary way of business in that city. The grapes now obtainable in X AVellington for fid. per pound are quite equal in quality to. those sold for Id. • per pound iu Sydney. In ALdboume ami Adelaide they, are rx-mih-d-s<J ar- et