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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1685, 15 June 1904, Page 46

IS (JUNE 18) the HIT DAY-NE On SATURDAY NEXT, June 18th, “The Times’ 1 (London) retires from the business of distributing the recently completed “Encyclopaedia *•■ ■ ' ' Britannica” direct to the public in New Zealand, and withdraws the special offer in this country as it has already been withdrawn at Home. Thereafter the work will never be purchasable in New Zealand for one penny less than the full price—more than double the price at which you r can, if you are prompt, still secure a copy by using the order form at the bottom of the page opposite. You mast now decide, opce and for all, which, of three possible courses open to you you : V <5 are going to take: 1. Sign the order form at the foot of the opposite page, post it at once (not valid, unless posted on or before 18th inst.), and so secure the volumes for a first payment of only 215., followed by 27 further monthly payments of 215., entailing upon the subscriber a saving of only 4s. 10d. a week to pay for them. 2. Put off the acquisition of an indispensable possession, and after next Saturday pay £57 down for the same volumes, 3. Go without this the latest edition of the national work of reference and reading . for ever. ■ -■ * • < ft ■ ; --f-/<’.X-.;" ' «e* Mn connexion with (1), it must be remarked that it was exactly for those who could not afford to pay the full price, even for so valuable a possession, that “ The Times,” in the first instance, undertook the enterprise from which it now withdraws in Mew Zealand, That the reduction in price to less than half, and the system of easy instalments have been effective in the manner intended by “ The Times ” is sufficiently shown by the fact that among the thousands who have purchased the work are subscribers earning salaries of only 25/- a week, In connexion with (2), it must be remarked that “The Times” gives an explicit guarantee that the volumes TO-DAY’S PRICES THIS WEEK Any of the styles of binding for a first payment of only 21 5., with further Monthly payments as follows :—• or N Cloth 27 payments of 21s. Half Morooco 34 payments of 21s. f Levant 36 payments of 21s. Full Mor@®co , O' „ ( or m 48 payments of 21s. -J for L (cashY for r .cashY o or N for £ cashy O or N for L cashY - £2B - «£3li - £B7 - £4i