THE SLIM GERMAN.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 71, 23 March 1916, Page 7

THE SLIM GERMAN.

Recently an American traveller visited "Wellington with a fine line of sample stockings. He showed .his wares }to the lady head cf a department in ono of the big houses, and she at once recognised the stockings as precisely i similar to those th e house had for 1 years before the war purchased from German travellers. She mentioned the fact at once that the goods were of German origin and the traveller showed her the neat little gold tag bearing the words "Made in U.S.A." In most cases this would have clinched the argument, but the young lady, who knew her business, excused, herself for a few minutes, and went away, to return with stockings exactly the same to, the smallest detail, stockings that had been

imported from a German manufacturing house that had passed on the list of its New Zealand customers to an American house, and sent stocks through a neutral country with which to supply orders. It was known that America had never supplied such a cheap line of goods, and could not with her ruling, rate of wages, and that ths stockings must have come from German and nowhere else.