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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 191, 7 May 1908, Page 8

I - • A Press Association message states that rumours are current that railway workshops will bo .established in Palmerston on.the completion of the North Island Main Trunk Railway. ■ Low cost of living alona will not bring white people hero. The real problem is the question of production and employment.. Of what use is cheap living to a man who cannot earn even a "cheap living wage"? ■ What wo have to do in this colony is to lay the foundation of solid manufacturing enterprises. Wo cannot do so without protection.—" Times of Natal," Fietermaritzburg. Since the makers provide increasing length 1 of chassis; year by year, there is no reason i why sleeping accommodation, at least, should not bo incorporated in the design of tho body , of a present-day touring motor-car, for in ) out-of-the-way placcs it would often be pre- • forable" to spend the night in one's own car ; than to put up at an, unknown hostelry of meagre resources. —" Onlooker." ? Messrs. Colo and Westerman, drapers, Man- ' nors Street, _ adyortiso' in this issue a number ' of lines indicative of the prevailing values at ! their store. Every ono of the items montioned 1 is claim'cd to bo a great money-saving oppor- . tunity for economical Ghoppers. The estab- . lishment carries a largq stock, and does a largo 5 business in a small area, and it is claimed , that blankots, costumos, furs, warm blouses, ' underskirts, underwear, sheetings, flannels, etc., from roliable manufacturers, can bo re--5 tailed at wholesale prices. Large stocks • of samplo towels, quilts, stockings, and men's underwear aro stated to havo recently come to - hand, and these will be cleared out at reduced room. :-S