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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17693, 2 August 1919, Page 9

CITY PROGRESS It is a well-known and recognised fact that if the four large New Zealand centres Dunedin easily holds pride of place in the matter of providing ample shopping facilities for the convenience of its many citizens. The latest and most attractive proof of this onward march of progress is demonstrated by the fine, clean, and palatial butchery establishment carried on by Mr J. W. Thomas (the originator of the cash-over-the-oounter system) in Stuart street.' A casual look round this shop at once gives one the impression that spotless oleanliness is the watohword of \ the whole establishment, and when you see the high-waisted tiled surrounds, the smooth plaster walla with their glass-like surface, the clean, fresh, sawdusty floors, and last, but not least, the smart business-like butchore in their snow-white apparel, you begin to appreciate that, at least, in this shop everything is as it should be where foodstuffs are sold. The •establishment itself has had to be enlarged to meet the greater and yet greater demands for the high-class goods that are sold, and we need only mention the fact that close on four tons of sausages and smallgoods are manufactured weekly to let anyone know that the firm's goods ax® eagerly sought after. The smallgoods window, particularly on the late shopping nights—Fridays and Saturdays—-is redly a sight worth seeing. There are sausages, stuffed pork, veal and ham, black and white puddings, brawn, Belgian sausage, saveloys, tripe, mild baron, delicious hams, and many other delicacies too numerous to mention. All these are made bv a ohef—Mr "W. Norton—who knows his business, and who wag for many years in charge of the smallgoods department for Messrs A. and J. M'Farlana, and it is verv questionable indeed if there is n better show to be found in the four centres of the dominion. Mr TOiomas is to bo congratulated on his forward move,' a moYe m keeping with the high traditions of our city, and our citizens are to be congratulated on having in their midst such a high-class butohery establishment, where they can get the verr- best moat of the very primes t; qualitv at the very lowest pricci —Advt.

—It is not easv to form an idea of thai capacity of the vast oil reservoir which thg Admiralty has built at Rosyth, the Scottish naval base, thoiigh an excavation of 300,004 cubic yards and a roof area of seven an J a-third acres aro undoubtedly impressivj figures. They are useful in another direction. The new reservoir holds 60.000.000 gallons. At the end of February there were in bond 114,132,000 proof gallons of British spirits, apart from huge quantities pf brandy end rum. Diluted to their selling strength, these spirits collectively would fill nearly three Rosyth reservoirs. — Among the 31 new missionaries—2l women and 10 men—who have been set aside by the Assembly of the United Freo Olmrch of_ Scotland for work in mission field is Miss Elizabeth Macgregor. lighter of tho Moderator, th° P"v. !>• W. M. Macgrogor. This Is tho first occasion on which a daughter of tho manse ling been presented to_ hor father to be dedicated for tho foreign field. — When the new system of irrigation is in working order in Mesopotamia there ia overy chance that it will soon bo once again the 'land flowing with milk r>ndl honey" of Bible days. The soil is so rich that it will yield two or three cro T is nt year with tho smallest possible amount of labour.