Page 26 Advertisements Column 6

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 26 (Supplement)

PENNY WISE AND POUND FOOLISH! MR FARMER —How true this old adage is when it comes to a question of fencing ! How many farmers realise that the actual wire used in a t - wire fence (6 plain and 1 barb) represents only about one-sixth of the cost ? Exhaustive investigation shows that in a mile of fencing (in average country), Strainers, Posts, Battens, Staples, Labour and Transport are the principal costs incurred whether a cheap thinly galvanised wire or the world’s best fencing wire JOHNSON’S 18 USED. tjo yooi realise that if you have to pay over £4 per ton more fo‘Johnson’s Wire, the actual saving is only between *2 per cent, and 2£ per cent, in the cost of the completed fence ? And that leads us back to our caption—you will be certainly ‘ penny wise and pound foolish” if you do not insist on using the special heavily galvanised wire—the wire that has stood the strain of years built to stand New Zealand atmospheric conditions. Manufactured by... «®JQHNSO!i#HEW LIMITED 477 % MANCHESTER, ENGLAND free to FARMERS—A New Interesting Folder entitled "Fencing Facts Every Farmer Should Know ” will be sent to you Post Free on request. Write for your copy to Johnson's Agents, P.O. Box 949, AUCKLAND. P.O. Box 1509, WELLINGTON.

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