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BANKING TRADE AND COMMERCE
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HAWKERS
Hawkers are to the towns what pedlars are to the villages. In
the municipal towns in the district there are about 75 hawkers, distributed as under—Karad 35, Mahabaleshwar 20, Panchgani 2, Wai 5, Phaltan 5 etc. Of these Karad, Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani municipalities have framed special laws for them under which they are required to pay licence fees.
The hawkers carry goods on their person or in hand-carts or burrows. The goods include, milk, vegetables, fresh fruits, sprouted grains, cocoanuts, betel-leaves, pickles, fish, bread, groundnuts, sweets, dry fruits, cloth, hosiery, ice-cream, tea, peppermints, sugarcane juice, utensils, earthen-ware, toys, stationery, cutlery, crockery, grocery, oil, agarbattis, bidis, and other miscellaneous articles.
The hawkers purchase their stock-in-trade from wholesale or retail dealers in towns partly on credit but mostly on cash basis. In most cases they receive cash payment from their customers for the goods sold, but in some cases they are often paid in kind.
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