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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 240, 20 November 1940, Page 6

Christmas i$ Coming Preparations for Holidays Shopping Season Approaches •v IT is hard to realise that Christmas is but a, short five weeks distant. Already the festival which cannot be denied in spite of war conditions, has made itself felt. The shops are displaying their holiday and gift season's soods for the happiness of Christmas will be a tonic) in the m \' of the worry and strain brought about by the terrible conditio is ruling overseas. The spirit of Christmas is too deeply engrained in our nature to be overlooked or ignored. It will be observed this year as ever before —with friendliness and goodwill. In Whakatane, in spite of restrictions and limitations the local businesses present a fine display of suitable gifts. Loyalty demands that shopping be done locally in the interests of ones town. We therefore commend to the gift seekers and Christmas shoppers, the patronage of those firms who advertise in this paper. PUDICTN/I AC °f the ancient varied fresUiiKlb 1 IVi/AO aoes that still adorn its mud STORY TOLD The church was built in t he INI PR O P CCC seventh or eighth century, and IIN i l\ vyt— the frescoes are done in the formalised style, of that date; they seem quaint to modern Egypt, the land where the in- eyes. But they tell the old fant Jesus found refuge from familiar story of the Nativity his cruel enemy, Herod, has in their own way: the Infant m yielded a new picture-story of the manger, the, coming of the his life, particularly of his birth shepherds, the visit of the Magi and childhood, on the walls of A less conventional scene shows a tiny, old, unpretentious little Jesus getting a bath, like church near the extreme south- any other baby. ern boundary of the land, at Other frescoes take up the the Second Cataract of the Nile, life of Christ in his later yearsA German archaeologist, Prof. The tragic Cross of Golgotha Friederich Wilhelm Freiherr von figures prominently. God the Bissing, has visited the place. Father and the Holy Ghost are almost as lowly as the Stable of also shown, not bearded as in Bethlehem itself, and has the art of nothern lands, but brought back notes and pictures young and dean-shaven. flnlr More Days 1111 1 I 0 J to Christmas! 500 TYRES B|P|g|P~ Wanted URGENTLY For Retreading! Prepare for the Holidays—Economise— have that worn Tyre Retreaded by * THE PARA RUBBER COY. The Strand WHAKATAWE liiliiiliiliiliiiillliiiillliliiiliiilliiilil