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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 9

WAGES AND THEIR PURCHASING '. ■■ POWER... ; ; What is the use of getting continual increases in wages if you are compelled, as the result of such increases, to pay more in the cost of living—in clothing in particular? You wonder how such increased cost of living comes about? It's just this way: %s the cost of goods to the manufacturers becomes higher, so will the cost, become correspondingly higher to you, the more hands those goods pass through before you receive them.. Like the snowball that increases in size as it rolls along, so does the price of your suit increase with the number of unnecessary profits and expenses you pay. .Why not get right down to bedrock? Why not pay one profit only—deal for cash—save the high rents? Patronise) a firm that makes the suits it sells, and sells them at wholesale prices direct to you. You'll appreciate the saving we can make you, and you'll, recommend your friends, too. Recommendations and repeat orders have built-up our business. Crown Clothing Co., Ltd. (upstairs), oprj. Evening Post, Wellington.—Advt.

It is reported from Cork that Mr. Henry Ford proposes to erect a large motor-car factory in that city to cost £2001000 and to employ 2000 men, who (ho undertaken)'shall receive'not le6s than Is an hour wages,