NEW FURNITURE
“J am old enough to remember when you might have a pretty title, a pret ty chair, a pretty chest of drawers at no shop iu London unless it were a shop of antiquities. You could have 'vuecn Arne or you could have Alary '"'lid, Nov.-nd ys you may choose furniture of the style of 1 P.‘l) and like if as well as that of the style of 1730. If is certain that you will find it more to your taste than the goods of 1851. of which you can only sev that IPSI was b -tter than 1851 or 1871. The new (‘raftsmen grow cleverer and cleverer and cleverer. In the matter of easy chairs they have passed the craftsmen of all the ages; who could have matched their easy chairs for easiness P One of these days—we shall have learned the last word that our ancestors could teacli about tables and chest of drawers.”—“A Londoner” in the “Evening News.” of London.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1930, Page 7
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165NEW FURNITURE Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1930, Page 7
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