CONSIDER THE ONIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 8

CONSIDER THE ONIONS.

HOW THEY GROW

An Onehunga gentleman of independent means has come to believe Hn advertising little things." He did nott at one time, but lie does now, and he tells his friends so. His conversion to fibe value of advertising came about in this way: He had a patch of small onicja plants growing in the garden at the back of bis bouse in Onehunga, from stud which he had saved from an old onion left here and there in the ground the yed r before. Not much to start with, but the seed produced more plants than he wanted for his own use. He was about to dig the balance in ft) the ground for manure when a friend advised him to sell th em. "How can I sell them?" he assked. "I cannot go'round hawking a f;t-w onion plants."

"You need not do anything: of the kind." replied his friend ;* "in 1 act, you won't have to leave your liouaa if you take my advice. Just put an advertisement in the 'Star.' It will only- cost you a 'bob' (the man's own \vords\ and "get your plants counted out in Ivrndlea of live hundred or a thousand ea»eli. The advertisement in the 'Star' willieich you plenty of customers." And it did, for within 24 boras after the advertisement appeared lie had sold out every plant, and netted tike sum of £3 10/. That was not all. Orders still continued to pour in for tl»e plants, from all parts of the country. long after his stock 'v;i,s sold out. and'it i.'*as with very sincere regret that he had tb refund postal notes worth £17 li/ received through the mail for bundles of tho friendly onion. The same gent'« nnaii has already sold £10 worth of oudons this year at the cost, of another shilling advertisement in the ".Star." In relating his experience he confessed that the "Star" had given him tin bei*t return he had ever received from any investment he had ever made.