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The first, election of five commissioners to represent the Fitzroy Town District will be held 10-day. Eight candidates are nominated. ' The poll will lie taken between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
livery season brings its novelties. The New Zealand Clothing Factory, with its usual enterprise, has imported some very high-grade and snowy slippers'with all the latest notions, and have them on exhibition in their boot window.
Morey and Son, of the big drapery store, notify in their space, on page ',), some interesting particulars about their mail order system. The largo range of goods stocked by this well-known' firm ensures every customer receiving absolute satisfaction. Read the advt.
No sportsman can expect to have a good run of luck during the coming shooting season unless he uses a reliable fowling piece and good ammunition. Came is not always plentiful, but after rousing the game you do not bag it, evidently your gun or your ammunition is at fault, Vou cun be certain of securing the best at the easiest prices by calling at W. W. Murton and' Co. s, Devon street. Only the most reliable makes are stocked at this store. Ge; ready before shooting season opens. Whilst the crowd was standing round the door of Mr. R. Deare's boot shop, gazing at the damage wrought by the runaway coach team on 'Tuesday, "Dearc the Shoeman" got the. Up to watch his stock. The hint came none too soon, for some light-fingered gentry got away with a couple of pairs of boots from outside the shop at "less than cost." .Air. Deare was unable to meet the requirements of his four-footed customer, but announces in this issue that lie can shoe all other callers.
When the "Hartnelt" milking machine appeared on the market, their competitors said "Wait and sec." This "wait and see" has been going on for a long time, and the "Ilartnett" has been iii constant use for over twelve months, with the best and most satisfactory results known in mechanical niilkim;. Vet we still hear the "Wait and see." Farmers! Inlall a "Harnett" in your shed and you will be pleased and delighted, and competitors will still be able to—wait and see.—Advt. The cold and rain sca-on is now will, iii, and there's nothing lihe providing for it. "The Iv.ns.li," i'j|' Devon streei, New l'lyinonth, has an exceptional oll'cr, ~n the'second page. A high -el tss, reliable waterproof fur 27:; (id'. To people living aivav from town tliev will send
: :'.:>. earriajje pair, (i> your post ollice on receipt of 27s (id. It' you do not like it when you see it, post it back, and they will return you the money. This is an offer that people living in the country should not miss, as the price ipiotcd is far below the ordi'u.ry manufacturer's price, and is a coal you would have to pay -I.M fur from any other store.—Advt.
A UKPAIITM ISN'T STOKI']. An article in our columns recently compared the trend of settlement in this colons- with that of Australia. Conclusively it was shown that New Zealand was advancing upon nation-building lines, rather tlian, as in Australia, citybuilding. Here we have, so far as .settlement has progressed, a splendid distribution of population, which stands out prominently when the comparison is made with the Commonwealth, where the proportion of city to country dwellers, always too large for the proper development of the country, is steadily increasing. Fortunately for the future of Xew Zealand, however much may be said for the allurements of city life,
there is no trend of country migration I citywards. The result has been, as we have it demonstrated in Taranaki, that solid country towns grow up in the centres of closely-settled districts, which have gradually become self-contained and self-supporting, independent of the cities so far as retail trade i-. concerned. There can lie no doubt thai such a condition, is inlinitely better for (be country at large and better for the individual. The over-.,c»porl towns become the wholesale suppliers ami distributors only, so far ;r- inland Xew Zealand is cerncd. In no part of Xew Zealand is the growth of country towns more marked than in Taranaki. In any of ibe principal inland towns of v.he province it is not difiicult to find business enterprise quite abreast of ambitions city houses. Visiting Kllhiim a inv days ago. a representative of the Xews was shown over the.
fine stores recently erected by .Mr. (', .\. Wilkinson, tiii' pioneer of chsli lmiliii» in that locality. 'l'lii' Imiiy.iin.'s. lilliiys, j>,'iii'Viil arranu'omonfs ami rapiieitv are undoubtedly ahead of an.vLJiin.if of !i like character in tin' province. pr<iliiil)ly ontiill uiuk't' oiu" rcmf, supported by pillars suiil without dividim,' walls, measures 7S I feet by 120 foil. Counters run right around walls, and some idea of their e\teiil may be gauged by the i':ut thai there arc over 1(10 yards in Iciiglli of tholll. Tilt- whole of Hie l!oor spac,. is utilised for show counters, (aides, , ( ud caws, with galleries between (lie diil'orci|t sets, each set of tables ln-iii- used for distinctive lines of goods, in charge of attendants. Tlie block of buildings is conlinucd back from the shop for some considerable distance, and used for storerooms, marking-tip rooms, etc. All sorts
nf labor-saving appliances are in opcia-liim-ri'sh line's, patent scales, etc., etc. 'l'l Dices, hi' which llii'iv arc throe. with plate glass fronts, :ii-t- elaborately lit (I'd up. and eoininnuil a clear view (,f Ihe whole nl' Ilk' interior (if the sioros.. Kig-ht hir-.. ph.le-fdass windows, each 12 \ \± in-ciipy tin- street fruuliiiri-. The iv!mle u!' Hie nrrangoni'.iils are nl(>ii<,'lhc I'm/- "I' an Aniovluiu donartnionl slure, v.h.'iv almost any ai-lii-1,.' required is .■,!- iia.-l ocrUiin („ lie r.imnl. anil, further, II would alaaisi'sel'iii that''rnoh '» concern is years :-1i.. ; ,i1 or (1,,. re M ni!vniea:s nf 'laranaki. baf evident !v Mr. Will.-ji- ■ s.,a ins MUliciciil onnlidenee in the s!a- . I.iliiy -I' the i.vi,|e .ijsjvj,, i,,. 5 „,,„!;,,, ami the miln.-oillonts he ,-n i.nvV r,,.-ea-h trade only, tn warrant his undoul.l----,,l enterprise.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 18 April 1907, Page 3
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