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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 82, 3 November 1916, Page 8

AUCTION SAL Eg. T. I. LfiMfISONAUCTIONEER AND 1 COMMISSION AGENT. Full Stocks of First-class Furniture. SEEDS, GRAIN, FERTILIZERS, FARM IMPLEMENTS. ALF Hif EAL. JgIBBYS C ALF M 1 Agents for Booth and McDonald’s Agricultural Implements. Auction Sales at the Mart every Saturday. AT THE MART. .SATURDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1910. T LAMASON will sell:— Poultry, vegetables, produce, barrels, plough. Also, on behalf of Mr G. W. Mills and another client, who is leaving the district, a quantity of furniture and sundries, comprising: Child’s cots, brass rail and wooden bedsteads, wire mattresses, copper, Perfection stoves, hanging lamps, linoleums, kitchen dresser, dressing tables, dining room table, couches, duchesses, Egyptian statutes, wicker chair, hall stand, and a quantity of sundries. Five cwt factory cured bacon. Ladies’ and Gents’ Bicycles. One double buggy (nearly new), and set of double harness;.

a. I C*C»Costs MoreThe Third Article of a Series dealing with a question which vitally affects every housewife. The increased demand for tea today is due to to the tact tha. huge quantities are wanted for the 25 million men under arms. The Heads of the Armies of the world know that there is no drink so stimulating and beneficial, and hence they must have tea for their men no matter what it costs. Then, too, at the stroke of a pen, die great Russian Nation has been turned into a tea drinking people, and the money previously spent on Vodka is now available for the purchase of tea But there is only a limited supply of tea and that supply is not sufficient to fill the present requirements. Hence at the tea auctions in Ceylon it has risen in price month by month, until to-day it costs the packer 2kl to 3d per lb. moire than in August last. This, of course, affects New Zealr jid very greatly, for the finest tea in the world has been sold here at price® which cannot be equalled. Although this seems a bold statement, it is one that will bear the closest investigation. For instance*: a great proportion of the tea imports to England consist of what is known as “red stalk" tea, the lowest possible grade—so low that it is prohibited throughout Australasia. Yet even this lowest grade is sold in England at 1/6 or more per lb., while for line teas of the quality of “Amber Tips,” 2/8 to 3/4 per lb. is asked. Tea experts the world over are astonished at the remarkable quality, flavour, fragrance and value given in “ Amber Tips” at so low a price, and it is because no better value can be obtained anywhere, that “Amber Tips” is to day the most popular brand in New Zealand, Millions of packets of “Ambers Tips” are sold per annum. It is stocked in every shop from the North Capa to the Bluff. Only exceptional value could be responsible for so exceptional a side. But fine tea is now costing the “Amber Tips” Proprietors, as well as other tea merchants, an average of 2Jd. to 3d. per lb; more than in August, 1914. Therefore, if a fair price was charged before the war, the tea merchant is to-day faced with tn enormous loss should he continue to pack the same quality at his old prices. Of coure there is the alternative of cheapening the quality by an admixture of inferior, leas healthful teas. The “Amber Tips” Proprietors were advised by many to do this, hut instead they decided to raise the price by 2d. per !b„ and to continue to give the public that same splendid value which has always been associated with the name "Amber Tips.” Now, Mrs. Housewife, what is your opinion of the whole matter? Would you rather have the same delightful flavour, quality, purity and value and pay a penny a 4-lb. packet more—or would you rather have an inferior and less healthful tea at the old price ? But you aay “other teas have pot been raised in prices." If so yon can readily see that either excessive prices were charged before the war—so excessive thai even an extra 2Jd. or 3d. in cost per lh. still enables a profit to be made —or qu.dity must be reduced, othera heavy loss, must he faced. But oven at increased figures Amber Tips is still the cheapest tea you can buy. Cup for cup, value for value, nothing else n equal it, while it is so pure and heal.:- el that it can be taken by oven those oi be weakest digestion. Surely these fa.,us should weigh with you. Consider them ca'*'fully—write and tell us your conclus ons. We believe that you wantqnulih and that you want value. For that reasoi. >ve have raised our prices because only :>v doing so can we continue to give you tire same honest quality and the same honest valys. 101 Ips2n l/io, 2/-, 2/2 p?' lb. [ The only tea that has to increase its prices—the foregoing will Ull yon why.