THE "HART" OF WELLINGTON

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2840, 3 August 1916, Page 3

THE "HART" OF WELLINGTON

BIG EXTENSION 01' PREMISES. It is only a matter of five years since Messrs. Hart and Co., of Willis Street, commenced business in Wellington in a very small way, but in that brief period tliu firm,, by giving good valuo lor anybody's money and abjuring tall profits, lias grown so rapidly that it has had to extend and extend until now it lias securcS Hie British and Continental Piano Company's premises adjoining, and connected tho big front shop up with the existing one by cutting a great arch through a three-foot brick wall. This accession ims given Mr. Hart an opportunity to adequately display ins largo anil varied slock to something like advantage. Tho new promises take- in a shop about 20ft. by fluff,., which has enabled him to departmentalise bis big store. Under a blaze of electric light, one now finds tho 'toilet-ware, stationcry, toys, brush and basket-wavo systematically arranged in the newest valve of tho "Hart" of Wellington, whilst the otner shop is devoted to the display of cutlery, jewellery, and fancy goods, in. finely ordered array, with a staff of smart young women ljusy at all counters, Keen on giving that courtesy and attention to customers that are the backbone of every retail business. "Tho 'Hart' of Wellington" store attracts the eye, and the value of the goods attracts the money from tho owner of the eye, so that there is a double pleasure lu paying a visit to the big em-' porlum in Willis Street that is still threatened with growing pains. It would be a bowildenug task to describe in anything like detail the stock that Mr. Bart carries, but attention is directed to a fine of unbreakable American dolls, which are modelled closely on the human plan, and which smile and smirk on prince and pauper alike in one glad family irom the show-window of the newest shop.