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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 19 December 1916, Page 8

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Choose footwear for your Xmas, gifts, sure to be acceptable these times of economy. Our stocks will meet all your requirements, so be sure and call. Foster’s boot store, Stratford. j .Mr H. J. Hopkins, of Broadway, is excelling all previous displays of Christmas and New Year presents this year. A very special importation of Royal Doulton art pottery is a feature of the many attractive lines he is , olferiug. j A notice appears in another column with reference to the registration of dogs in the 'Whaugamoinona County district. I The marts and offices, of the Stratford Auctioneers are to be closed for •Christinas Holidays on -Monday, luesday and Wednesday next, and on .Monday and Tuesday of the following week. i The H.B. advertise several useful gifts to men. j Mollisou’s, Broadway, enumerate a few lines suitable for Christmas pte- ' seats. | Claims in the estate of Frank Baker, late of New Plymouth, are advertised for. A lovely lot of Japanese drawn thread and point-lace work runners, I tray cloths, table cloths, and table centres, lias just opened out at tbo (Melbourne, Ltd. These goods have been imported direct from Japan, ana are marvellous value at the following prices. Runners, Is lid and 2s lid. Tray cloths, Is lid, 2s Gd and 3s 9d.

Table centres Is 6d, Is lid, 2s Gd. Table cloths 3s lid, 4s lid, and 5s lid. An entirely British-made beautifullyfinished typewriter at nearly half the price of the ordinary foreign-made machine is surely a boon to the easiness man of to-day. Mr H. J. Hopkins, of Broadway, Stratford, is now agent for the famous “Imperial” typewriter, manufactured at Leicester, England. This machine has every modern advantage ,including unbreakable frame, changeable type, visible writing and universal keyboard. It is, in short, as nearly perfection as a typewriter could be. Mr 'Hbpkins will be glad to show the “Imperial” to anyone calling on him. The Bathephone is gaining great favour, and Mr H. J. Hopkins, ot Broadway, Stratford, having secured some of the latest models lor the Christmas tradV/ wilh be pleased to show them to callers at his shop. A Bathephone would make a really handsome present, and it would be welcomed in any home. i