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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 378, 28 April 1908, Page 4

The associated , ; t Napier, says the Herald, again discussed a scheme having for its object the encouragement of cash ! business. At present complaint is ; made that the cash customer, the j man who pays hard cash over the i counter when he orders his goods, receives no reduction off the ordinary catalogued price. By dealingon a monthly basis, or, in ether words, by making the grocer wait for his money, he can at the end of the mouth secure a discount of 2\ per cent., or more, by paying the account before the 10th of the following month. This, it is argued, really puts a premium on the credit system. That is, however, only one side of the picture. The grocer says that the man who deals with him on the monthly settlement system is a monthly customer, and he buys the whole of his groceries through the one firm. For that' reason it is “ business ” to offer him a small discount. When, however, people buy for cash over the counter, they deal just where fancy or low price will take them. There are people, a local business man tells us, who will wear out a shilling’s worth of shoe leather in running round the town to save a penny on the price of a bag of sugar. These must be in the minority, else why so few shoemakers ? Two orphan children of the late Mr J. H. Hammersley—a boy of fifteen and a girl of thirteen—have had an experience that has probably never fallen to the lot of any other boy or girl. While presiding over a dinner for newsboys in New York last month, given at the suggestion of their guardian, they were told that they have inherited ,£10,000,000 each. In accordance with the will of their father, who died seven years ago, the children have been brought up in complete ignorance of their great wealth. The servants employed to look after them were warned that they would be instantly dismissed if any of them mentioned the subject.. The children have led very simple lives, their clothes and food being of the plainest. Their father left detailed instructions regarding their daily life, which show that he believed in the more rigid upbringing of children, as practised two or three generations ago. While permitted all kinds of healthful exercise and amusements, the- children have never been allowed to come into contact with anyone who might tell them of the property they will some day possess. To Flaxmiiaers. —We are prepared to print the new tin and leather regulation tags for hemp bales, and would request millers to inspect samples of leather before placing orders for same. Inferior leather will be condemned by the department. We hold samples and invite inspection.—The Hkraed Priutery. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS stands preeminent among stimulants and cordials. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is abso lately invaluable to the traveller.