WARNOCK AND ADKIN INTERVIEWED.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2998, 9 December 1896, Page 2

WARNOCK AND ADKIN INTERVIEWED.

Wo have no time and we don’t nood an Exhibition advertisement, was Warnookand Adkin’a answer when asked why they do not exhibit at the Exhibition. Although we have 44 dressmakers and 12 hands in our tailoring department, besides a lot of milliners, we find all our work cat out to get orders bat in time; especially mourning and urgent orders, often required in a day or two... You don’t advertise extensively ? No ; we don’tneod to. We make our goods advertise themselves, which accounts for the steady growth of our trade; besides, for the best class of goods we are by fa? the cheapest drapers in the city. Do you Import your goods ? I should think we do. Look at these. Hero a bunch of invoices was produced, marked s.e. Rakaia, numbering about 60, and each ono from a different factory representing different kinds of goods. , We don’t buy .from warehouses ; we go direct-to the makers. - All these discounts you see taken oil wo"save ; besides, wo pay duty only on the net amount, . Have you buyers in London ? Yes, w© have ; and they buy very . largely for some’of the largest firms all over the world, and we get the benefit. Do you give away Xta ve presents ? No, we don’t. We sometimes think people who get presents pay too much for their whistles. When wc give goods, say, to the value of 17e for which customers would have to pay 20a elsewhere. we consider them the beat presents, and this all tbo year round, not only at Christmas. ' Don’t you think you ought to advertise, more ? Well, you order a suit of clothes anywhere from three to five guineas aud it will advertise itself, orifyou bpys well clad wo can supply them wi»h everything they require, except boots. . Our goods are our best advertisement. • Have you any special lines of goods that you find attractive ? Yea, several. Our hosiery is very special, as we have our stockings and socks specially made in Leicester from longwool, which accounts for the good name our hosiery department has got. Ourfis6d kid gloves are DDL-quailed in New -Zealand, and oar better qualities have taken medals wherever shown. In our show-room wo lead- the' trade, especially in mißmery and hand-made underclothing. -Ladies know, all- about these. * Do you keep a shop-walker ?: v, '. No, indeed ;he woald 'pnly the way ? Customers borne and go as they please, and no one to annoy them. - • Do you want anv advertising done ? Yea ; you can a-lvcrtiee for .coat. vo“t and trouser hands for oar tailoring department. Ihanks; 'S;VSr wan t.:- Good-day. 8