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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17470, 2 June 1922, Page 8

FURS REDUCED.

W. A. COLWILL'S NEW POLICY. "Look at those coney coats of mine," said Mr W. A. Colwill to a "Press" representative yesterday morning. "They're just landing. I'm selling them as they open up. Ladies can buy them right out of the sealed boxes. Yet I'm reducing them from £ls 15s to £l4 10s." Mr Colwill had just been explaining that he wouldn't hold a sale this year. "Every firm in Christchurch seems to hold saleß all the year round now and customers must be sick of the word 'sale.' Anyhow, I am. I hate the word.

"So I'm just going to make big price reductions right through my stock. My prices are always low. Tho people know that, and they know my name for quality. When they see my low prices made even lower they won't want the word 'sale' to prompt them. Yes," said Mr Colwill, in answer to a query, "I still make up many hundreds of pounds' worth of furs in my own factory, from skms that I select personally. On top of that every one of my fur workers has been trained in my own factory. That's how it is I can guarantee my work, either new or renovating. That's why 1 got so much work from all over the Dominions." Newspaper man's note.—These low prices operate from to-day (Friday). Address: High street, opposite Knight's. Telephone 4180. 6

The Dean of York, speaking at a meeting to raise funds for the preservation of the windows of York Minster, said that if the glass of York Minster were to disappear they could never see its like again, because there was nothing like it in the world. They had there, in situ, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth century glass of English craftsmanship and artistry of the very acme of the art of glass making. The glass in the "Five Sisters" window, and that in the great east window, and that in the north clerestory windows of the choir, and much besides, was actually made, designed, painted, and put in when the stone work was erected. When the windows of other cathedrals were destroyed by Cromwell's troops, those of York Minster were spared because Lord Fairfax, the Parliamentary General, issued an order that the man who damaged the windows would be shot at sight. As an indication of the commercial value of the glass, the Dean mentioned that a year ago a panel of fourteenth century English stained glass, measuring 30in by 31} in, was sold in New York for £18,500. In York Minster they had 25,000 square feet of this "lass, and on that basis its value worked out at about £73,000,000. Although she is to remain in dry dock permanently, H.M.S. Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, is not to lose her ; prestige as the Commander-in-Chief's flagship and senior ship in port. All \ war vessels, whatever their nationality, i *s they pass in and out of Portsmouth I Harbour will be able to see the Victory in her new berth, and will salute the old three-decker in accordance with long-established custom. The Victory will not, however, fire her guns again.