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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12644, 3 November 1905, Page 4

WhatOiir Tipple Cost Us. How marly people realise the magnitude of our " Tipple Bill"? You ask a man if he knows how much we Wanganuites spend in drink per annum,and he can't even guess at it. You, Mr Business Man, do you know how much hard cash is going to drink ? You think you are a pretty smart man of business, reckon you know pretty nearly all there . is to know in your trad!1, and you don't know that. You pat yourself on the back if business has been five pounds better this week than last, and you don't know how much was. spent in drink by your-customers— the customers who come to you for credit in order that they may swagger into Mr Boniface's bar and stand drinks for the crowd. You sent in that account to .Mr Slowpayer last week and he said " he couldn't possibly do anything just now." He pays Mr Boniface cash, solid cash for his drinks, though. Do you know how much ? What, no? Then let me whisper, it is , roughly £50,000 Fifty Thousand Pounds per annum. Nice little sum, isn't it ? You met Mr. Boniface the other day —nice genial sort of man, isn't he ? (it's easy to be genial on fifty thousand a year—cash trade too). You felt quite pleased when he ordered a suit of clothes, or some groceries, or a pair of boots, or something you sell, and you felt you were on the high road to prosperity. What about that £10 account Slowpayer owes you ? Slowpayer has paid Boniface in cash Three Times Ten Pounds since that account has been owing, and you,, Mr. Business Man, feel pleased that Mr. Boniface allows a little of it to trickle through his fingers in your direction. Saturday night comes and you are nearly at yout wits' end to think how you are going to fix up that Bank overdraft on Monday. Mr Boniface, however, has taken a thousand pounds in HARD CASH for the week from the very people to whom you, Mr Business Man, gave credit. Nice genial man, Mr Boniface, isn't he ?.; You could be genial on a cash business. Now, Mr Business Man, give this matter your calm, common - sense attention for a few minutes, and, looking at it from no i -higher standpoint than that of busik^ness^Sße'if ytm? don't come to the conclusion that it would be far better for the community, and also for the individual, that that • ■ - £50,000 should go into the ordinary channels of trade. Mind you, it's not only this year, IT'S£SO,OOO EVERY YEAR I STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE! Look-out for To-Morrow!