Page 3 Advertisements Column 3

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2327, 21 October 1908, Page 3

H‘ s M AJESTY’S T HEATRE v ■ THURSDAY, 22nd OCTOBER, At 8 p.m. .NO-LICENSE CONVERSAZIONE. gHORT DDRESSES. ADMISSION—Is, in aid o! League Funds. WILL ALL INTERESTED IN THE COMING REFORM MAKE AN EFFORT TO BE PRESENT? SOMETHING FOR WORKING-MEN TO THINK ABOUT.

“Bass and Co., the well-known brewers, publish tlicir total turnover for last year to be £2,400,000, and thenwages to 2050 hands to be £132,000.0i 22s 6d per man per week. I his means that lor every £1 spent on beer Is 3-Jd goes to tlie labor market. In tliis connection, Air. Burt, Al-P., says: ‘For £lO spent in clothes, £0 go" to labor; for furniture, £5 10s ; for shoes, £4 15s go to labor; while £lO •spent in beer gives 11s 3d in wages, and the same spent in whisky gives Is 8d in wages.’ The British Board of Trade reports that for £IOO spent in coal mines £55 go in wages, in shipbuilding £37, in clothing £32, in railways £3O, but- that amount spent in beer gives only £7 in wages.” These figures tell a tale which-every working man should take to heart. They show that it is not the capitalists but themselves who are their own enemies. They have but to give up tlie habit of drinking and it will, in most oases, be the first-step on the ladder to success. In whatever way we look at it. wc find it does not pay to spend money in intoxicating drink. For instance, as is here shown, labor is worse paid in the manufacture of such drink than in that of any useful article. And to spend our money in the purchase of strong drink is the most- wasteful tiling in the world, for not only do we derive ho benefit from it, but- on tlie contrary wc cannot partake of it without injury to ourselves. It docs, therefore, pay -to AYe knew a man in the Old Country who commenced life under very unpropitious circumstances. He was a mere laboring man, earning less than a pound a week, but- he became a total abstainer and saved something out of 'that small sum, and by steady conduct he gi'adually got on, and eventually had one of tlie largest works in Manchester, employing a- great number of men. If lie had been eveiv what- is called a moderate drinker lie would never have attained the position which he did and which enabled him to find employment for a large-number of his fel-low-men at remunerative wages. AVorking-men! drink docs not pay, except- to those who manufacture and soli it. Read the above figures again ; they are meant- for you.

NOTICE. 'fc/jfRS. JOWEIIS, of THE SAVEETIvJL ERIES, begs to notify the Public that she lias opened her new Shop in Hallensteins’ Buildings, Gladstone Road, and is now prepared to supply them with Ice Cream, Afternoon Tea, and Light Refreshments of all kinds. The Best of Confectionery and Choicest of Fruits at — THE SWEETEBIES. Telephone 501. mennie & bey, MANUFACTURERS OF BISCUITS, JAMS & CONFECTIONERY, Auckland and Thame*. TO SETTLERS IN GISBORNE AND EAST COAST DISTRICTS. We wish to draw your attention to the. fact that we Supply the Best JAMS and'MARMALADE Made in the Dominion, largely from fruit grown in the Auckland District. Why, then, should you send your money South for these Articles ! . • -BUY—JENNIE ANE JOEY'S BISCUIT 3, JAMS, FANCY -CONFECTIONS SWEETS Of Every Kind. m OllMM;Alb*r*