A STRAIGHT TALK TO MOTOR-CAR BUYERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2218, 3 August 1914, Page 6

A STRAIGHT TALK TO MOTOR-CAR BUYERS.

Tho farmer, more, perhaps than any other class of tho community, demands value for money when he is purchasing h . motor-cai The purpose of these fenlines is to demonstrate to him 'that in the Studebakor car the firm of Adams, Ltd., can offer better valuo for less money than any, other firm in New Zealand. Adams, T,td., are tho largest importers of automobiles in the Dominion. They have had fourteen years of experience of importing cars to this country,- and of driving them under all conditions. They know the motor business from A to Z. and they have selected tho Stndebaltcr car as absolutely the" best value for money obtainablo in tho world. Studebaker ouality cannot bo surpassed, yet the Studebaker car sells in New Zealiind from £30 to £50 lower thali any other car fitted with the indispensable electric self-starter, and. clwlric lighting ppt. 'Rtudnbaker cars ar« being purchased dailv throughout New Zealand, ami every purchaser is more than .satisfied. Thc'more experienced the motorist the better dr.ns he appreciate the Sturiebaker. These «ro the Studebakor prices for New Zealand:— 35-h.p. 7-* eater Studelxsker, 25-h.n. 5-seater Studebaker, ,£S*3; 25-h.p. "-seater cabriolet Studebaker, .£!> os: 23-h.p. It-seatcr .Studebaker (body, made to special order by Boon ami Co., Ohristchnreh), ,E:;7.> These prices l include "Wagner" electric, self-started, elcctric lighting sot. hood, wind-sluc-ld.. and, in fact, all the item* usnally charged as "e.-.tras." A shipmeni of the new 25-h.p. Rhidebakers has jus' arrived, and the cars may be inspected at Christehurch, or any or our agents. • ADA3IS, LTD., .' Agents for Stwtebakef Motor-cars, Christchurch Branches at Wanganui mid Pah mfcrston North. • DISTRICT AGENTS-Tourist Motor Co., Hastings; Newton King, Now Plymouth and Stratford; ..T. ill. Lvttle. Mnsterton: Hutchinson tiros., fiketalmnn: A. and H. Donald, Pahintua-; K. A, Knneomc, Dannevirke; aud Grcve Motor C')„ Wellini;t.oi.,

Battalion orders for the Fifth (Wei-: lingtou) Regiment, issued by Lieuten-ant-Colonel L, liarcourt' Turner, slate that a meeting consisting of the officer commanding each company, with his second in command, will bo lield in. the Orderly Room, Garrison Hall, Buckle btreot, on Wednesday next, at 8 p.m.

Among the eminent scientists who are to visit Wellington next month wiin ilie Bntisli Association's party .is Professor von Luschan, a son-in-law of Dr. lloclistetter, . thg German . scientist, whose name-is indelibly associated with jScw Zealand through the. valuable geographical .work ho accomplished in the South -Island in t'lio days of Mew Zealand's youth. Professor' von Luschan is one of the distinguished faculty "of tho University oi : Horlin, Ono of tbo papers he ;s to read either in Wellington or Christchurch is entitled "l'ho Unity of Mankind," a subject, it should bo mentioned, that was decided' 6n beforo fho outbreak of ' hostilities in Europe, which gives the .title of the papor a Somewhat ironical twist.' •'

l'ho public; who are always more or less, interested in file progress of t'lcctricity will remember the revolution caused in the price of electric light by the introduction of the metallic fila--ment lamp, which is said to have reduced tho price of current at least 00 per cent., and made, or helped to make, the illuminant available to people whohitherto 'had not been able to utilise electric energy for lighting purposes. Now comas tho half-watt lamp, which: is said to be going to', reduce the present price of electricity by about another 30 per cent;, but so far the new lamp lias only been manufactured for sizes 200 candle power and over, and there are difficulties in applying tho new principle to small-sized lamps, that .the inventor hopgs to solve in the near In the larger sizes the new half-watt lamps have now been on -tho market in England since tho beginning of the year, and have been selling as follow:—300 watts (equal to; 600 c.p.), £1 10s. each; 500 watts, £1155.; 1000 .watts, £2 10s.; 1500 watts; £3. Resolutions expressing appreciation of the action of the Government in bring-, iug in the Referendum Bill requested by the Biblo-in-Schools-League' have been passed by the. Claudelands and Ellerslie branches of the Women's League; the quarterly meeting of the To A'ivamutu Methodist Circuit; tlie Gray,' Lynn electors at St. Peter's Schoolroom, Auckland; the St. James League, Wailii; and the. St, Sepulchre's' Branch of the Mothers' Union. •