Page 7 Advertisements Column 3

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13644, 11 July 1908, Page 7

You must often have thought that £4 or £5 was too much to pay the ordinary tailor for ,a single suit-of clothes,: but have you ever thought why you have to do it? There are reasons which I maintain should not exist in the ordinary business (Conducted on sound' economical lines, and 1 have proved, and will prove, that they ■ are not necessary. The reasons why you have to paytfie ordinary tailor .who gives credit. £4 .or are, first- of all, there, are heavy book-keeping expenses which are unnecessary in a cash business; but worse still; ,there" are, and. always must be where credit is given, a fair percentage 'of bud deblu, pud this simply means that the debts of those people who'never pay must be )>oriie in. the price; of the clothes ordered by tli people who do pay—by you.■ iji I Am Making Suits to Measurd From £2 17s. 6d. Which' are ■equal, if not the superior, lothe. Suits you usually pay £4 or £5 fiir, because I give no credit to anybody—l make 110 bad debts. - When you order, a vsurt- here you pay for what .you get,, not-for what anyone else geis* lam mak-. ing suits of highest quality—perfect- in cut, style and finish-j-and I give you a written : guarantee with every garment I make for a perfect--fit, or gladjy refund your money in full. • • ! Read below how my coats art made, and then come in and?inspect my spiral: did range of new Suitings and Overcoatings for Wmter wear v . ~1 will save you at least £2 on your neocfc suit.- Come in and see how l can d& it. It is- well worth while. . . " PATENT PAD V BEST QUALITY ITALIAN CLOTH REAL HAIR CLOTH m Big Reductions IN Beady-Made Overcoats, , Shirts, Umbrellas, . AND ALL GENTS' • Underwear. ALFRED J. STEPHENS, The £2 17s 6fl Suit >hbp ' ■■ v.^- ; • '■ 'f \ : .-I':■ =v'^ Opposite Post Office, Timaru. The National Mutual Life ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA LTr. i . : v-v ; HEAD OFFICE f»<»« NEW ZEALAND v • ' ' 1 CUSTOM HOUSE OUAY, WEU.!N6TOI>! , V MANAGER, ORTCN BTE VEINS. .' Runda, uwlt £4,850,000 . .. Aundfil Inooiiw nearly . - Ag«aci«i throughout t-h« Colony.. ■t- \ E. A. LeCR£N, Local Agent, Arcade, Timaru. { 1 The Symbol of Excellence "K" 'V" J AM is m:ul ° ' solel y of Pure Selected' Ripe Fruit "and . \tV Fine Civstallned Whue Sugar. The Fruit is perfect in quAlity and condition. There is positively .no adulteration. , , Cleanliness at every Istage is: carried 10.-.-th* point'of- the'most 4 V fastidious scruple. j v v ■ S. Kirkpatrick & Co., ltd. Nelson WHERE THE BEST FRUIT GROWS. Dick's Patent Driving Belts i (BALATA GUTTAPERCHA, AND. CANVAS). The Best in The World ! BEWARK OV rMITATIONS. Ask for Dick's Genuine ® THOUSANDS « NOW IN USE I <0 A PERFECT *- BELT. Atk for DickV Genuine THOUSANDS NOW IN Utjfcv A PERFECT, BELT., -«£?= I*l s -<l , CO n> ■•rF (A tb G> C' BJ CO JOHN EDMOND, . HARDWARE MERCHANT Haye* Street,'Tlmara.