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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16523, 25 October 1915, Page 5

CONSOLATION. The price of meat, if not actually exorbitant ,at the present moment, is at any rate verging on the prohibitive; and there can be no denying the fact that if other necessaries, advanced in price in similar rat'.o "times" for the average housekeeper would be hard indeed. If there is one thing which relieves the situation mo-e than another Tt is undoubtedly the fortunate circumstance that drapery— including clothing and all the numerous household requisites classed as softgoods, can ttill be obtained at Penrores at prices so phenomenally low as to be incomprehensible (in view of the fact that the factories do not now manufacture at the prices quoted) were it not known that this particular firm had an enormous stock purchased at pre-war prices, and have, since the war started, added thereto by several purchases within the dominion of complete stocks.at prices much below cost. Then, again, W. Penrose and Co.'s system for outfitting both ladies and gentlemen must be acknowledged to be a great relief. We refer to the firm's, scheme for making up. ladies' costumes after, they have purchased their own material, at a total co:t of 50s (about (he pricewbich elsewhere would be chargcd for the making alone) and to their practice, now so popular, of making gentlemen's made-to-measure Suits, fashionably cut and of the finest tweeds, for 50s. Certainly, if meat is now so dear as to be almost prohibitive for children's contumption, it must to consoling to parents to consider that, owing to Penrose and Co. persisting in selling Children's Clothing and Hosiery at prices below warehousemen's present charges, the children may still be well fed. W. PENROSE & CO., GEORGE STREET. —Advt. Watson's No. 10 is a little dearer than mart whiskies, but is worth the money.—Adt.