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Maoriland Worker, Volume I, Issue 6, 20 February 1911, Page 21 (Supplement)

One of the most urgent reforms necessary to-day is honest advertising. The tailoring trade particularly has been subject to much dishonest competition —misrepresentation. It is to be hoped that the Government will be induced to give protection to the buyer of tailormade suits ias well as the master tailor and his workmen. The frauds perpetrated on the public amount to several hundred, thousand pounds yearly. Hundreds of tailors have been thrown out of work by substituting cheap labour drawn from factories in the production of tailor-made garments. We understand that Mr Owen, the London tailor, of Christchurch, has a proposal which, if given effect to, will be a great boon to the public, and will give permanent employment to every tailor in New Zealand to-day and many more besides. The proposal sets out clearly and definitely the three distinct grades of labour employed in tailoring. Should it become law, a man ordering a suit would receive a contract note stating which of three grades of labour would be employed in the production of his suit, and likewise every advertisement would be accompanied by the same declaration.—Advt.