BUSINESS MEN WILL READ THIS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43113, 13 July 1907, Page 1

BUSINESS MEN WILL READ THIS.

Mary had alittle lamb, its fleece was whi'e as snow; it strayed away one summers day where lambs should never go. Then Mary sat her down and tsars streamed slowly down her face; she never found the lamb because she did not advertise. And Mary had a brother John, who kept a village store; he sat down and smoked his pipe and watched the open door. And as the people passed along and did not stop to buy, John still sat and smoked his pipe and blinked his sleepy eye. And so the brokers seized his stock but still he. lingered near and Mary came to drop with him a sympathetic tear, “ How is it, sister, can tell me why. othershopman here sell all their goods so quickly and thrive from year to year?” Remembering now her own bad luck the little maid replies, “These fellows fatten, Jolrn, because they advertise,* Advertise iu this paper, which finds its way into every home in the district.

I A woman who asked the Wellington - Benevolent Trustees for relief explain;ed that her husband was a drain--1 layer, but he had not been able to get employment lately. Mr Bbbertson sai-di that there was plenty of work of some kind or another for willing hands, but if the. man waited for a drain-laying job he might be idle for two or three weeks. “I think we ought ■to go back to our old rule,” he conj t-inued. “When we used to send a man up to dig in the garden at, Ohiro he didn’t c'ome back for a second lot; be always used to get a job after one day of that.” A farewell social was tendered to Mr and Mrs D. Y. Allen in the Foresters’ Hall (writes our Coromandel correspondent). There was a, very large attendance. Mr Allen has been the director of the Coromandel School of Mines for the last 61 years, and is leaving to take up a position as direo- ; tor to -the Zeehjan School of Mines, Tas- . mania. During the evening. Mr T. W. Rhodes, president of the School of Mines, presented Mr Allen with a, hand I some illuminated address from the councillors and students of the Coromandel School Of Mines. He also referod) to the many sterling qualities of Mr Allen, both] as am instructor and friend, and to Mi's Allen as a vocalist, and musician*, Wlm "-ms- always willing to assist at any function* for the benefit of the general community.