IS IT FRAUD?

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1164, 3 November 1917, Page 6

IS IT FRAUD?

To the Editor of THE SUN. Sir, —Knowing your paper is ever ready to help to right the wrongs of our fellow-men and women, let mo try to explain how the public are being had in the matter of stationery. Entering a well-known stationer’s the other day I asked for a writing-pad of 100 sheets. I chose one out of many, but the shopkeeper, when asked if there were 100 sheets, looked at it and said there were 75. 8o I paid the shilling ho asked, and .-journeyed to the country. Judge my surprise when I got home, and, in counting them, found only 47. I returned it a few days later, and had another selection, and, on paying another sixpence, got what the shopkeeper said had 100 sheets. When, on going to a friend’s house, we spoke of writing-pads, and again thought to count the new pad sheets, and, lo! it only had 80! Had again. Amongst the second lot I looked over was one with “100 sheets and blotter printed thereon.” The shopkeeper thought it looked thin, and counted only 50 sheets. Now, which is the rogue—the manufacturer or the shopkeeper? In buying writing-pads we never think of them being “sweated,” like clothing, but they are.—l am, etc., A WORKER.