THE TAPU COLUMN.

Maoriland Worker, Volume I, Issue 6, 20 February 1911, Page 9

THE TAPU COLUMN.

Dear Editor, —I have received a fetter from " The Anglo - Australian Importing Co." of Sydney, offering mc a free phonograph if I buy 10s. 6d. worth of records. An engraving of a phonograph is enclosed, and under it is printed, " The Champion Senior Phonograph, price £6 10s." Will any of your readers let mc know whether the said company really do send them a £6 10s machine for 10s 6d? And if so, how it is sent and what the carriage and duty amount to. I do not want to seem sceptical or doubt the benevolence of the advertisers, but if (only " if ") the machine was taken by the Customs to be worth £6 10s, the duty would be about £2 10s; and if it were sent by steamer being too heavy for parcel post, the expenses would be about £1, total £3 10s ; and if (only " if ") the machine proved worth, with the records, about 7s 6d, it would mean that the purchaser got a machine worth about 2s 6d for an expenditure of over £4. lam sure you will see there is nothing libellous in my question, as if (only "if ") the affair is bona fide, the replies to this letter of mine will assure the success of the company in their attempt to make many homes happy.—Yours, etc.

CHARLES WILLIAMS Tane, Eketahuna.