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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 151, 29 June 1916, Page 4

Messrs Barakat & Wilkes, butchers, notify that they will apply to the Upper Wangaehu Road Board for a slaughterhouse license in respect of premises at Motokawa.

Collinson & Gifford's second halfyearly clearing sale is booming. Many of the choicest bargains have gone, but many are left, to which a recently arrived consignment has been added and cut down in price that will only 'just return outlay. There is still a very line selection of d.-apery, millinery, costumes ami other goods at great bargain prices.

The commencement of their colossal Mid-winter Sale is advertised by Collinson & Cunningham's departmental store on page 8. Thousands of .bargains have been prepared, at prices which positively cannot be repeated. The sale starts to-day, and for cash the already low saJe prices are further reduced by the firm's war rebate of a penny back out of each shilling spent.

Luxford & Co., merchant storekeepers, Aramoho, Wanganui, have a new advertisement in another column, to whieh attention is drawn. Farmers and town residents may rely on getting the best quality goods at the- lowest prices from Luxford's, who pay freight on all orders for £5 and upwards. A trial order is solicited. Luxford & Co. sell at wholesale priees for cash, and they notify the fact that they do not issue price-lists, owing to rapid and constant fluctuations of prices caused by the war. They ask that a Ist of your requirements be posted to them and they will post quotations by "return mail.

To-morrow night, at S o'clock, in St. John's Hall, the renowned Clement Wragge will deliglit a Tailiape audience by his great masterpiece, "The Eternal Universe and the War." The pictures used in illustration are truly magnificent, and the inner meaning of the war in the light of Eternity will be made known, .Startling facts will bo enunciated, and people's eyes opened as never before to the reasons of the great tragic world struggle. Mr. Wragge will also give forecasts of "Coming Seasons" for the benefit of the man on the land, and new m:<! most valuable specimens of marvellous) radium willl be exhibited as well. Altogether we may safely promise our .,££s&*> cra a very special and uniquc'lrcatT^

The Upper Wangaehu Road Board will, at its ordinary meeting on Wednesday, July 5, make and levy a general rate of three-farthings in the pound.

A meeting of the general committee of the Taihape Branch of the New Zealand British Eed Cross Society is to be held on Thursday, July 6, in the Town Hall supper-room, at 3.30 pan.

An advertiser has several tons of prime tattle potatoes for isale at a moderate price; he has also a large quantity of feed potatoes to dispose of. Prospective purchasers should ring up 155 M, as the price of potatoes, like everything else, is doing the aeroplane trick.