anuses on Empty Spirit Cans.
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Ve announced last week, that the Anglo-American Oil mpany had decided that the system of bonuses, which inaugurated shortly before the Olympia Show of last nth, should not continue in force beyond the end of ruary next. This decision, as may be gathered from a agraph on page 299, has been followed by the British roleum Company, which company was unwillingly forced )) line with the action under notice. We have nirt''iSiV CXSSed our views in regard to the evils which must attach, greater or lesser degrees, to any system of bonuses on pt y spirit cans, and we are extremely glad that the life :he propaganda is to be for one quarter only. Consider
difficulties have arisen in connection with the practical king of the scheme, and we believe that others will clop before the 28th February, toot), arrives. For explc, we have been asked what is to prevent the forging a large number of seals?
new field for the employment of vans and lorries is iissed on the next page, and it is one which promises 3pen out fresh opportunities for sales. The delivery of eels from many a large stores is still entrusted, al least mrt, to contractors and other delivery cornpanie, hut a
inconsiderable percentage of such services might yell Indertaken by those who now pay to have the work done them. The incidence of lost mileage has dwindled to i'tor which may virtually be disregarded in the proposi of delivery by road motor, as was very clearly demonted in the course of the writer's receni paper before the 'al Automobile Club. The old fear of upset for rusers and dislocation of the trader's own business is little .e than an historic memory, and there is, accordingly, longer good reason why a single van should nct he .usted with as many as one hundred packages for various ers. It will he noted, incidentally, that the article fore lows the handling of such loads " smalls " over long ances by means of an arrangement of working zones. part of the projeet, however, is one which may very be taken in band later on.