TRADING STAMPS. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 109, 5 November 1900, Page 6

TRADING STAMPS. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir— When the echoes of the applause following the Premier's oration re that £40 sop have died aAvay, an d the various unions have determined the amount paid by the individual, taxpayer to the same, ask them t. o bear in mind that by the passing of the Trading Stamps and Coupon Abolition Bill, for which the Iremier was alone responsible, the work'drs have been done to the tune of not less than £10,000 per annum. It may bear fruit nowadays if it is kept in mmd.— l am, etc., WILLIAM COOK.

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Thornton, of Manners-street, returned from a sixmonths' trip to the Old Country by the Paparoa this morning. Mr. Thornton found a difficulty in^placing orders with the confectionery manufacturers at Home as their factories had been Very busy, and had orders in hand which would keep them going until next year. The subscriptions for the benefit of the wife and family of George Watts, who lost his life, a short time ago in attempting to rescue a young woman irom frowning at Wanganui, now amount to £456 2s Id. It hns been arranged for tho Monowai to leave Wellington on the 16th November, ono day early, to connect with the Brindisi mail leaving Sdyney on the 20fch, and arriving in London on the 23rd December, two days before Christmas. This will be the last opportunity for swling letters to reach London by Christmas Day.

After a term of idleness the Mokihinui colliery is now in full work, fifty men being employed. Hard bright coal is being got out of the llul seam.