PADDY'S MARKET.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 October 1918, Page 4

PADDY'S MARKET.

TOWN HALL, TO-NIGHT. A RED CROSS SENSATION. Should there be one man in Taihape who/ has been in and about the Melbourne Paddy's Market of forty years ago, that man will begin to appreciate what Mr. Stan. Peyton Fas organised in Taihape to raise Funds for the Red Cross Fund, and which opens in the Town Hall to-night. Every available inch of the Town Hall auditorium and supplementary rooms Sas been converted into a scene that will be seething with the "business life of half a century ago. It is understood the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms have been ransacked to find goods for sale; commerce and manufacture have also been made to contribute their quota. It is said that Mr. Stan Peyton has secured fish from saddlebag to a whale; that workshops have furnished everything from a pin to a steam engine; that plant life will be in plenty from an ornamental moss to a palm' tree. Whether this rumour is true or false 1 , It is well known that there is to be a-business hot time in the Town Hall to-night. For amusement the means are innumerable; first, there is the orchestra, but that isn't much alongside the auctioneers Dutch and otherwise ,the variety of showmen in their Joseph's coats; the spinning jennies, shooting galleries, and all the coterie of cash abstracting devices in vogue in the Child-days of our fathers. Then, of course, there will be the lotteries, lucky bags and ,bonbons, with a more modern brantub, or something like that for the wee children. To-night is to be a time of unprecedented shopping bargains dished up with music, mirth and oldtime jollity. The Maoris are not to be neglected, as a good old-time war haka has been in rehearsal for a long time. This haka should be seen, as the days of hakas are Vapidly passing away. The Town Hair will be taken back fifty ypars to-night and those who do npt know what the business world of the masses looked like in the good old days when profiteering was said to be in its infancy, should certainly be present and compare notes. Paddy's is open to-night in the Town Hall.