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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 6343, 17 June 1889, Page 3

W SI7IL lIS THE HUBS. TEA LA «LA!! your temper my friend, I was not aware that I called you old, Not having the ploaauro of your acquaintance I could not pretend to describe you, but should take you to bo; very young, still in swaddling cloths. Let us hope increased years' may give increased wisdom, and that some day (perhaps in the romote futura) your name may be more justified than it is at present, that you may bo indeed a WISEMAN. v Let us Drop Fun and Proceed to Business. N)w for facts that can be verified at Thames. One of my Machinists, now living in Pollen street, received 35s per week; a Needlewoman in' her second year, at the Wade, 27s 6d, now living in Sanders street; Female Button Holer, on piece work, can make 45s per week, now V living at Tararu, Pull names and addresses on application, Boy Apprentices 30s per week, in last year. Girls, do, 20* do do. do. Smart Girls, 20s to 30s do. in second year. . Men, Standard Wages, say 45s inside, to as high as £6 per week out. VERB SAP. I am quite prepared to TAKE UP YOUR CHALLENGE, and being the CHALLENGED PARTY assume that I have the CHOICE OF WEAPONS. I will meet you in the LARGEST PUBLIC HALL at the Thames, Expenses to be borne by the Vanquished in the contest, herein sketched out. Details to bo arranged to our mutual convenience. I will prove all my assertions re WAGES I PAi*. Each party shall demonstrate the superiority of lIIS method . by measuring, say SIX MEN (Strangers), arid GUTTING TIIEIR SUITS in the presence of tho Audienco, the said Suits to bo shown on tha wearors iu the same Ilall on a day fixed so that tho PUBLIC) MAY JUDGE, Each Contestant shall finish the suits in his accustomed style. Tho Vanquished in this contest shall leave the Thames and i District, The Victor shall have tho field. • MAY IT PROVE A GOLDFIELD Legal Dociunonts shall be prepared to socure the prize to the winner, the cost of such Documents to ho divided. So much for what my system will do for the public. Now for what it docs for my workers. I will back my boy apprentices years of age) to cut more and better, and to have received more wages duriug the past year than any MR WISEMAN cau produce. G. McBRIDE, ESTABLISHED, 1873. INTRODUCER OF WHOLESALE TAILORING INTO NEW NEALAND, AND TUB PROPRIETOR OP THE FIRST WIIOLSALE TAILORING i?ACTO}ZY IN THIS COLOMY.