DISHONESTY IN BUSINESS.
Speaking in Gisborne on Sunday evening, the Rev. L. Dawson Thomas said that he had been asked why the Church did not denounce dishonesty in business. Tha question came from a working man who had called upon him, and produced a pair of child's shoes, and asked him to examine them. He did so, and found that the soles consisted of pieces of cardboard, with a covering of leather no thicker than a piece of paper. They had been rendered useless by having been worn four times, and the man who showed them to him had purchased them at a shop in Gisborne for 7s 6d. Mr Thomas said he did not blame the tradesman who had sold the shoes. He believed that the tradesmen of Gisborne were honest men, and that the one who had sold the shoes had been ignorant of their worthlessness. He was unable, however, to find words strong enough to condemn the manufacturer, who, wise man, had been careful not to put hi . name on the,shoes, and who was practically guilty of the unutterably mean action of jobbing a little child.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10149, 20 December 1910, Page 4
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189DISHONESTY IN BUSINESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10149, 20 December 1910, Page 4
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