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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 540, 15 June 1920, Page 4

Thanks! PUKEKOHE, June 10th, 1920. DEAR SIR (or MADAM) - With sincere thanks for the trading connection you have been good enough to favour me with, I desire to place on record my gratitude and due appreciation of such. The liberal support accorded to me by your good self and others during the past 27 years of my business connection with Residents of Pukekohe and the surrounding districts has had much to do in building the business up to its prevent .satisfactory position; one, which both you and I can take mutual satisfaction in knowing is in the very forefront of country stores in the Auckland Province which carry on trading in a simiUr manner. Knowing this, I can assura-you it is witfi some considerable regret I relinquish the business, and the connection same has given me with so many friends, and a staff of loyal and energetic dhployees. My successors, «3!he Farmers' Union Trading Co. (Auckland), Ltd., have been so eminently successful during the past two years as a co-operative trading concern, that the Board of Directors have had pleasure in acquiescing to the desire of numerous of - their Shareholders to establish Distributing Depots or Chain of Stores in various Country Townships throughout the Auckland Province, and so the Residents of Pukekohe and the districts adjacent are now afforded the opportunity of taking the full advantage of dividends on Shares and rebates on Purchases by becoming Shareholders in this great cooperative trading concern, which the Directors claim has during the last 12 months established the record of the largest trading turnover of any similar confwn for the same period thoughout New Zealand s> * General Manager of the Farmers' staff should*, temain in the Pukekohe Branch of the Company'B«Service, and Mr. J. G. Russell, my former Manager of this Branch. Fyou tthe same careful and proper attention i have'eiven in the past. So, combined with the to the biggest co-operative trading company in the I can with confidence hope that you will extend to my successors the favour of your trading requirements in like manner to the favours you have bestowed on me, rod for which I once mer most heartily thank you, taking this opportunity, of wishing you and yours during many years to follow a full measure of good health and prosperity. Yours faithfully, WM. ROULSTON.

The Farmers' Union Trading Co. (Auckland) LIMITED. (Wlo Crowd yoor Honey foil of Quality.) NOTHER Store lias now been added to the Company's chain of distributing depots, viz; the Business of Mr. Wm. ROULSTON, and we wish to notify Shareholders and the public in general, that in taking over the business we are retaining the same. Staff, and have appointed MR. J. G. RI'SSEU, as General Manager of the Pukekohe Depot,-so you will be cheerfully greeted by the same Departmental Managers, and Sales people as hitherto. ARMERS and country residents who have not ' yet taken Shares in the Farmers' Union trading Company will be wise if they make early application. On Ordinary Shares, a dividend of 8 per cent, free of income tax was paid last year, and this rate the Directors intend to maintain. The substantial rebates guaranteed by the Company last December are also still being allowed off shareholders' purchases. These savings range from 2* per cent, off Groceries, Flour Sugar, and Kerosene, to 5 per cent, off Drapery, Clothing. Furniture. Bedding, Boots, Saddlery. Jewellery, Stationery, Farm Implements, Seeds, Crockery, and Hardware (except rooting iron, wire cement, lime and galvanised piping). m O understand why the Farmers' Union Trading Company can pay such rebates one must remember that it is a co-operative, and not a private concern. The shareholders are both owners and customers, and after paying working expenses the whole of the profit goes to the shareholders in dividends and rebates, or in reserves that strengthen the Company and increase the value of its Shares. These reserves, it should be noted, belong exclusively to the ordinary shareholders, as the Company's Articles of Association specially provide that no preference shareholder can ever gain any benefit from them. The strong position of the ordinary shareholder is no doubt one of the cheif teasous why the il Ordinary Shares of the Company are in such great demand. As these Shares are still being offered at par, every one who intends to become a shareholder should apply at once to the Cnmpam l"i a reasonable holding. THE FARMERS' UNION TRADING , (AUCKLAND) LTD. » rr Tit Farmers* Great Co-operatiie. ■* KING ST. PUKEKOHE.