JEWELLERY MANUFACTURING

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 15

JEWELLERY MANUFACTURING

* In the above building is carried on jewellery manufacturing and repairing, watchmaking, eye-sight .testing, and optical work by Mr. John Brunette, who established the business in 1882. For nearly 30 years tho proprietor hr.s • bent his energies, both in the depressed and prosperous times of Hawora, to make the business what lfc now is—a success-in' all its branches. To a stranger, the appearance of the large, well-tilled, attractive windows (there aro some 50 feet of plate glass)' gives tho. effect of pleasant, agreeable surprise, and tbo quesiton naturally arises: Is a display of such magnitude warranted and payable in a plaec like. Haw-era? Mr. Brunette apparently' finds that it is, for, in these .windows, ho shows a sample..of nearly all the goods ho stocks, and the lines ale not few. Mr. Brunette further holds that the display mentioned gives the buying public assurance that tho.v can be suited from the great hulk of jewellery, silver, electro-plate, and clocks presented lor their inspection, and herein is a feature .of his business, for fcw. people nowadays care to visit a store without first knowing that they have an. ample selection to choose from. .Mr. Brunette carries a heavy stock, the great bulk of which is imported' by direct communication with London manufacturers and warehousemen. Ho may, therefore, be styled a "merchant jeweller," which places him in tho enviable position of being able to compote in prices with any other firstclass business in the colony. Being a. practical workman, with tho best London experience, Mr. Brunotto has on his llawera premises manufactured (both in gold and silver) many beautiful trophies I for local sociotics, clubs, sports bodies', | etc., somo of which have been shown in various important exhibitions held in i.br> Dominion