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Evening Star, Issue 14053, 7 May 1909, Page 11

Mis Dorcas: "Why did you expel her from the Women’s Club?” Mrs Learned: " She proposed a motion that, instead of engaging a professor of Hindu philosophy, we should hire someone to teach us how to get into a cab, how to sharpen a pencil, and how to carry an umbrella in a crowd.” "I hear that your son is something of an aviator. Is that so?” said a rector’s wife to a villager. "Well, to tell the truth, ma’am, he was a bit that way. but he's taken the pledge!” the old lady replied.

PUBLIC NOTICES. NEWS EOB, MEN! TEX TEARS’ LEASE OP THREE-STOREY BUILDING SECURED. GEORGE DAVIES OPENS ANOTHER SHOP WITH WORK BOOMS ON THE PREMISES IN DUNEDIN. IT MEANS MORE SATISFACTION FOR MEN EVERYWHERE. BETTER SUITS THAN EVER AT A SAVING OP £2. riTHE fact that George Davies has taken a X 10-years’ lease of those three-storey buildings next the Mutual Stores, Princes street, and is opening another retail shop, with works rooms on the premises, is but another striking proof of the way Dunedin and Otago gentlemen everywhere appreciate the opportunity of saving money on high-grade suits made to measure. Mr Davies says: “ Until I could get premises largo enough for the work rooms in Dunedin -I have had to work at a disadvantage, but I have done my best to give satisfaction under the circumstances. However, my object is not to talk in this anI nouncement what has been done in the past. I want to tell you just what I am going to do in the future. It interests you. “First, I am going to beat even myself. I am going to give you better suits than ever I have produced before—better suits than it has been possible to procure in Dunedin anywhere at any price previous to this date. “I have the equipment now to do it in Dunedin. I have every modem method installed. I have expert cutters and skilled workers, who put the work into every detail of every garment, which means perfection ■when you get your garments made to measure with me in Dunedin. “You can place your order either at my present show rooms, next Herbert, Haynes 22 Princes street, or at the new work rooms’ next the Mutual Stores. At both these establishments the new suitings and overcoatJngs for this autumn and winter are being opened up direct from the world’s best manufacturers, and the newest designs now await your inspection. “ Suits to measure are shown at £2 5s £2 10s, £2 15s, £5 3s, £3 10s, and £3 15s| which I give you a written guarantee will fit you perfectly, and please’you just as the suits you are paying five and sis guineas for to the credit tailors, who have to charge you for their bad debts, and the result'of antiquated and expensive methods of production. “ I make suits in the modem way—the best way. I sell for cash only—make no bad debts. _ I am saving thousands of pounds to 1 men right throughout New Zealand at mv i vanous branches in Auckland, Wellington Christchurch, Palmerston North, Wanganui’ 1 Timaru, Ashburton, Oamam, Dunedin and Invercargill. I want to save you money, too. i Will you give me tbe opportunity this week? , the .pew suitings anywav. i It s worth while to note }ust what a splendid selection I am showing, aud it’s worth while to know about the splendid satisfaction 1 1 can give you, in addition to saving yon £2 j on your next suit made to measure i-I--ini vrte your fullest investigation. I stand? prepared to prove every claim I make. Put jm to the test to-day. It will pey.’* - -