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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 45, 4 October 1887, Page 3

Fortune's Favorites

Atticus in. the Leader thus comments upon our new constabulary regulations :— lt has frequently been said that Victoria loses many of her best trained teachers owing to the I inducements held out to them to take '"service in New Zealand. I cannot say i how that may be, but it does not appear likely that there will be any large emigration of the police force I from us t» the Britain of the South. Some new regulations have lately been framed for the constabulary of > New Zealand, one of which is especiI ally worth nothing— "Constables are to retire at the age of 60, when, if their record is good, they will be pro-, vided with, badges of honor, and they will W taken into the Government service as messengers, as vacancies occur." This is not a brilliant prospect for a sexagenarian. A preferential claim to a possible messengership I at the end of 30 or 40 years' service as a constable is not an out-look that will temp* tthe best men into the service. "Let us hope that when they reach the age of 70 or 80 they may be provided for as postmen, or in some other position demanding activity, Victorian policemen need trouble themselves about their future when turned put of harness, if common rumor is right. They are credited with the possession of rows of houses — especially publichouses—farms, bank shares and pro- 1 perty of all kinds that make them the most envied of the public service. It seems strange that a man with 7s or 8s a day and a large family should save a competency. Perhaps a retired constable will tell us how it is done." "-,

Have you seen the strong Harvard shirts and the durable Crimean shirts for one shilling each, the white dress shirts at half-a-erown each, the flannel undershirts at 2s lid each, the strong military socks at 8d per pair. All these and a number of other articles equally cneap now selling rapidly at the Wholesale Family -Drapery Warehouse, Te Arb House, Wellington. .Did -you ever see anything like the bargains in s«c and Pagit coats for 7s 6d arid, 10a 6d, each. It tempts one to buy whether you want it or not. Fancy; too, a choice of good, durable tweed trousers from 3d 6d to 6s 6d, and your pick of weed trousers and vests from 6s 6d, to 10s 6d at Te Aio House, Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Wellington. As for pilot and Tweed overcoats, where can you see anything to equal them at 12s 6d, 15s, 17s 6d and 20s each? No wonder such a roaring trade is now being done in the Clothing Department at Te Aro House, Wellington. . ..-■ If you have not, O man, it is time you did. Come at once and secure some of these bargains. If unable to come, send your wife, who will, doubtless, make far better purchases than you would yourself at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Said one man to another (or if he did not say it, he meant it, which comes to the same thing) " Did you ever see anything more ridiculously cheap than those tweed suits at 16s 6d, 18s 6d, and 20s now going off at Te Aro House, Wellington?" '

All goods purchased at Te Aro House will, if so desired, be sent to the Wellington Railway Station free of expense.

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