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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1731, 28 June 1917, Page 1

v-isos-" 9 s? Vv fc£§ as ££ sis & S&K m m. «33£i 0S 81 IMaLaw mens &*■ .Atr?L7\W X K Af b?p?CT ®#ii iOt'Q *-.j ass saa 2£;:^ Do you buy direct from this Wholesale Warehouse. LAIDLAW LEEDS’ NEW WAREHOUSE (now completed) has reached a total cost, with land and internal fittings, of slightly over .£38,000. It is one of the largest and best equipped in the Dominion. It is six storeys high, and contains over one million cubic feet of space, every inch of which is occupied in carrying the enormous stocks of merchandise necessary to meet the requirements of their customers throughout New Zealand. Five cart entrances, 3 electric lifts, 38 typewriters, 24 automatic telephones (each connected by a trunk line to the Government Exchange), 3 adding machines (2 electrically operated), and a staff of 180 are all kept exceedingly busy with the enormous business that is daily handled. All this is the result of having the courage of their convictions in opening their wholesale warehouse to farmers ami ont-of-town buyers of New Zealand, thus saving them the enormous profits made by the retailers. Our BIG General Wholesale Catalogue of Grocery, Hardware, Implements, Jewellery, Drapery, Boots. Saddlery, Furniture, etc., is FREE. If you have one, use it; if you haven't, write to-day It’s yours without obligation. See the low freights to your town on the front IXV ' h ’ rnIMRE'S A REASON FOR OUR WONDERFUL GROWTH). 108 LAIDLAW LEEDS > (Our Guarantee: Satisfaction or money back.) SUPPLIERS OF EVERYTHING IN THE WIDE WORLD DIRECT TO YOU AT WHOLESALE PRICES. WHOLESALE MERCHANTS Warehouse—Corner of Hobson and Wyndham Sts., Auckland.

POST AND TEEGRAPH INFORMATION. LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, iVi d. for first 4 oz, or fraction thereof; L>d. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards—lnland : Single id ; reply, 2d. All other places; Single, reply 3d. REGISTRATION. Registration insures proof of the delivery of mail-matter by placing it under the hand-to-hand check of every officer dealing with it. Registered matter should be placed in strong covers. All classes of matter may be registered; but commercial papers, printed papers, ete., must be so packed as to admit of easy examination. Every person who registers a letter is entitled to a receipt for it from the office at which it is registered. If a further receipt is desired from the addressee, this will be obtained upon payment by the sender of an additional fee of 2%d. at the time of registration or subsequently. In the event of the loss of an inland registered letter or a registered letter from any country with which New Zealand has a reciprocal arrangement as 10 indemnities the Postmaster-General consents, under certain conditions, to be liable to pay a sum not exceeding £2. POSTAL NOTES New Zealand. The notes are issued tor nine amounts, upon which poundage is "charged as follows For notes of 1/, 1/6, 2/- and 2/6, poundage %d 3/- and 5/-, poundage id.; 10 /-, 15/-, and 20/-, poundage 2d. British Postal Orders.—British postal orders for fixed sums from fid. to £l are issued for payment in the United Kingdom and some of the British possessions. The poundage is: Up to 2/6, id; to 15/-, 2d; to £l, 3d. Money Orders (for places within New Zealand).—For sums not over £5 the charge is 3d; £lO, fid; £ls, Qd; £2O, is.; £25. is 3d; £3O, is sd; £35. is 9d; £4O, 2s. TELEGRAPH. Tariff rates. telegrams, from any station to any station, for 12 words or less, including address and signature, 8d; for every additional word, %d. Urgent telegrams—For 1? words or less, including address and signature, 1/2 for every additional word, Id. El 333 U |THB SECRET OF BOOT EASI Dales' Dobbin makes the leathei oft and pliable, lengthens its life, :eeps it thoroughly waterproof. tOT USB IT OH BOOTS, SADDLES. A HARNESS • . Exhibition Highest Awards. Over jc tars’ refutation. Said in tins everywhere MANUFACTURED XT DUNSTABLE, ENG