"What an appalling waste takes place every day m our midst m tho distribution of foodstuffs among bakers, grocers, butchers, coal-dealers aud^njlkmen, 1 ' remarked Mi\ A. , Spencer £fc tho annual meeting of tho Employers' Association at Auckland. "Each tradesman has • a few customers m each street, every round overlapping, thereby causing consequent loss of time and material. The whole \woik of distribution could be done m half the time and ■with half tho hands if efficiently organised and the labor thus released could bo profitably utilised m essential industries. It is oidy by real economy m every direction that the prosperity of this Dominion can bo maintained and tho people able to bear the burden of the overincreasing taxation which will be imposed on them for many years to come."
Did you hear about it? Every Grocer, including yours, is waiting to pay you 6d per dozen for empty liadium Polish Hnfr— tlio Eoot, Floor, or Metal Pbliph varieties. It's W r ar-time, and wo waiit ;i/lil tho empty tins we oan obtain. ■ Will you db your bit to- help us? Tell ytfur children, about this. — 1..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 7
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187Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 7
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