GREAT STOCKTAKING "SWEEP."

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19896, 13 September 1913, Page 4

GREAT STOCKTAKING "SWEEP."

Ladies, there are many lovely ba<rs; t« ho cleared at iust half prices, and YOU should have first pick. The goods are the best, hut space must be made, feel' oct your bargains from the window displays. Young and Collins. Ltd. lodav would be a good chance.

■» The- latest additions to the Telephone ■Exchange are No. 986, Mr. Norman Lynch, drover, Smithfield, and No. 636, Caledonian Factory (McKay and Bell), 66, St. Hill Street.

The Garrison Band will play a programme in Mr. W. DrafhVs motor garage this evening, when all are cordially invited to inspect the prizes for the Art Union hi connection with the forthcoming Village Fair. The concert will commence at 7-45.

A bold theft is reported to have taken place at the Commercial Hotel, Falmerston North, whereby the licensee was robbed, of £50. It appears that the safe, in which -the money was kept, Avas left open during the time the theft took place, the thief appropriating the gold and leaving the bank-notes untouchtu.

The "British Weekly" lately offered prizes for the best lists of the ten men in England who would be most missed. The result was published recently, the names appearing in the order given Mr Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, Sir Edward Grey, Mr A. J. Balfour, Dr. Clifford,. Viscount Kitchener, Earl Roberts, Dr Meyer, Mr Andrew Carnegie, and' Dr. Campbell Morgan. The first three—^-Mi" Lloyd George, Mr Asquith and Sir Edward Grey—far outdistanced all others on the list.

A case giving ample # evidence of the faulty nature of the-. Borough by-lawSf. and one which emphasised1 the necessity of the City Fathers giving ,the revised by-laws weighty consideration i.jefore confirming them, was heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when the Borough Council (Mr. Brodie) proceeded against J. Spence Nicol, auctioned-, for displaying "a ,calico sign m front of his shop in the Avenue and attached to the verandah. Mr. Nicol conducted Kis own defence. After lengthy evidence and argument had been heard, His Worship dismissed the cas?, afcacribing the offence as a trivial one.

A curious situation developed in a Syndicalist* restaurant in Paris t Avhere the Socialist principles of equality are illus-. tratad by the fact that customers, waiters and waitresses alike address each othet ias "comrade." One of the waitresses was discharged by the manager. The others took her part, and the whole staff was dismissed. Resenting this arbitrary infraction of the Syndicalist principles for which the restaurant stands, the waitresses refused to give up their posts, and returned, to work next day. The management was compelled to' sacrifice the most cherished theories of the movement by having recourse to the aid of the police. Unable to solve this conflict of principles with practice, the restaurant closed its doors. With regard to exemption from military service, the following regulation appears in this week's "Gazette": — "A member of the military forces desirous of obtaining exemption from personal service on the grounds that undue hardship is caused by the requirements of such service . . will first give fourteen days' notice to the ofneer^commnnding his unit, and at the oxoiration of that period the applicant ; will make written application to the .'nearest Magistrate's Court. _ .The officer commanding the unit will Inquire into the merits of the case, and within the 14 days will notify the clerk of the Magistrate's Court whether he recommends or intends to oppose the applidation. and the application shall be heard and determined by a magistrate."

Abuse of the system of getting goodte on approval is very widespread, and i.-; helped on by the keenness of competition. One firm in the West End of London bad a lady customer wha was always asking for selection of dress goods to be forwarded for inspection. " One day it would be haifa dozen* hats, another day a number of feather ruffles or a variety of fur coats. This went on iso angularly and so little was bought, that we took the trouble to have her watched. She was wearing the things one after the other a day at a time! People who want thfeir houses to look well on some special occasion send for a selection of expensive rugs, use them and calmly send them back,.saying they are unsuitable. Last year there was a really amusing case. A man pretty well known, was niarxying off his daughter. He hired an empty house, put curtains in the "windows to make it look occupied, and then sent round to various firms for carpets and furniture on approval. The things went in two days before the wedding and came out the day after. The only article he paid for was a small skin rug, and that was only kept because someone had spilt a jug of coffee over it." There are many men who make a pnactice of getting free trial trips in motor cars, and there are firms thatdo a lot of their correspondence on typewriters sent to them "to try."

Blair Bros, offer a seaside home at the£Great Barrier Island. The area comprises 1056 acres, has a sea frontage to good harbour, good boating and fishing. Six hours to Auckland; weekly steamer at door; handy school, P. and T. office on property. 4 acres bearing orchard, 400" acres grass, 150 acres light--open country, rest timbered. 7roomed house and out-buildings. Price*, £4 ss. an acre.