Work for the Million.

Southland Times, Issue 10201, 6 July 1889, Page 3

Work for the Million.

" Wanted— People to do work for us for the coming N.Z. Exhibition. L2to L 5 per week can be made by persons of either sex at home. New business, Big Success, no Canvassing, no Talking, no Walking required. Anyone can do it. Capital not required, we start you. Boys and Girls earn nearly as much as men. Full particulars and instructions mailed on receipt of a twopenny stamp. Now is the time, don t delay, Avrite at once if you want to make money. Address, H. E. Stirling, A.M. P. Buildings, Dunedin, N.Z." As the foregoing appeared in our columns last week as an advertisement, we think it only fair to state that some doubts have arisen in Dunedin and elsewhere as to the bona fide* of the advertiser. People who replied to the advertisement received in return a lengthy circular expatiating upon the ease with which the money could be earned, and the vast business done during the Melbourne Exhibition, when 4000 people, under Mr Stirling's management, earned from L 2 to L 5 per week each, or, taking a rough and ready average, something like LU.OOO per week passed through Mr Stirling's hands to the public in the name of wages. The circular, however, did not contine itself to setting forth the benefits to be derived by establishing business relations with Mr Stirling, but embraced also a request for " references " and for the deposit of the sum of eight shillings with the advertiser as " security and guarantee." The Evening Star says that some of those who had complied with his request could get no satisfaction afterwards, and describes a scene alleged to have occurred in Mr Stirling's office between that gentleman and an irate lady applicant. Our contemporary, referring to the circular says, among other things:— " No sensible person reading that document could fail to see that the thing was ' too thin,' and it would not unnaturally be imagined that only those possessing more money than brains would have been taken in by its specious promises. But the fact is that not only here but in Christohureh numbers of persons readily took the bait and forwarded their postal orders or notes for Bs, soliciting the hoped-for information that came not. We have not, of course, access to the records of the Money Order Department, but judging by the number of notes and orders that are known to have passed through the office here, Mr Stirling has not been able to find during his short stay among us where the depression is.''