MADE IN NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 175, 15 July 1908, Page 3

MADE IN NEW ZEALAND.

'--LOCAL INDUSTRIES WEEK." . A POPULAR MOVEMENT. J The "Local Industries Week " niov(inent is "catching on" well. Host ,1 the retailers are making displays, and he exhibitions are very creditable. Few people had any idea that little New f aland bad so many jjidustries, although they may have been using i„ their own households scores of the aiticles which aro produced in the JJoI minion. Visitors to town to-day can spend a profitable and educational hour by inspecting the various shop windows . J. WHITAKER.

designed m the past few years. Man pi them were built before window-dres« mg was looked upon as the iinportan J djuiict to business that it has prove, '.Vf clf t0 »<•'; lience there is uot in som, shops a vast amount of plate-glass, no. depth of window floor space in which tc make displays. Thus some of our shopkeepers have not had the same advantages as those who occupy premises which were built, comparatively speakSf'JlSf.- mtcrito y- Mr - J- Whitaker. ' 1C n , s , A° Wn S rocer ; " Street, « one of these, but what is lacking i„' piate-glass area is compensated by the educational value of his display, to sav nothing of the very fine situation of his piemises nght i n the centre of the \?S ! ?¥*■ has devolved upon Mr. Wntaker of bringing under public no .ee a North Taraiiaki industry of wl,o°e Mstoneo some people are not aware. lint? Mr'' 'vinT', but " is a fact > "'at I until Mi. Whitaker put in this particu-

lar window show there were people ,„ '•>'« did "ot know that jVle*,rs. Lit lend Co, of Sentry ]lil|, had a, up-to-date roller Hour-mi I an were turning out flour scarcely fa" enough/or the orders which flock i >?m all parts of the province. I„ u lis ndow are exhibited photographs o | tbe'ml'and some of the nmclt Jry, together wal, a diagram of the interior arrangements, showing the roundabout course travelled by tl7c „rX?s bS Horn the grams ot wheat arc produced »ow-wh,te nour, and bran, polllu,,"and nf i ,lh V mdow has a background ?[ hags of flour from this mill, whi t rathe front of the window are show, the results of the thirteen different

wiieat. 1 hen are seen the result of the brnk" 1 ' <;T? nd breßk " and "Mm weak j\ o . S lot gives "semolina," and Ao. B crushed semolina," or very fine m ? al. Nos. 7 and 8 are '•middlings "No pollard, however, consists of a mixture of these three. Wheatmeal and bran are also shown, and a nice sample of fine roller flour. This is an object- esso-! upon flour m the making, from the wheat to the finished article. In the opposite window is a mouth-waterin" display ot Aulsebrook's biscuits, in all grades up to the choicest wafers, and finished quite equal to imported goods. The same remarks apply to the get-up of the chocolates, jubes, and other confectionery in the foreground of the same window.

AMBURY BROS. Messrs. Ambury Bros, arc amongst those hnus who find that as the result of an excellent season's business their stock of colonially-manufacturcd woollens has been considerably deplete! Nevertheless, they make a very creditable display in three window's facin"-Devon-street. The first has samples of the manufactures of four of New Zealand's woollen mills—Kaiapoi blankets, rags, hose, costumes, and motor-hats: Koslyu Uaniiels, rugs, and hosiery; Petoue tweeds and rugs; and Onehuu»a rugs. The range of goods is a large one, various styles and qualities being presented for inspection. Close alongside is a, line of woolly mats, grown on rfew Zealand sheep and prepaid and dyed in the Dominion. Another window serves to illustrate the perfection to which clothing manufacture has been brought in New Zealand. There arc on view stylish overcoats, tailor-made suits, boys' suits and garments, pyjama suits, shirts, sweaters, and golf hose. The prevailing epidemic of football is catered for by the Boslyn mills' football jerseys. Men's outfitting includes underclothing, and the colonial brands of this line aro placed on exhibition. Cents' hard>its and tweed hats, white and colored shirts, and a range of eolonially-inanu-factured umbrellas complete this wellvaried display. R.'AND F. AROA. The whole of the window space of this firm's premises in Brougham-street, is devoted to "the cause," and the display embraces a whole host of industries, such as many of the leading brands of preserves, such as bottled and canned fruits, liquid fruits, tinned fish, and canned meats, and various other prepared foods. Lest the imported article should disorder the human mechanism, the firm has on hand numerous family medicines, the manufacture of 50 many different brands and colors of these comprising, no doubt, a pretty considerable industry in itself. Pepper ground and put up in New Zealand factories, eoffeas ground and blended by our own people, and teas blended and packed in the Dominion aro shown, together with ehutneys, sauces, pickles, and the like. (Jarden seeds grown and packed for sale by colonial growers assist in the display. Another window is devoted to an exhibit of the various brands of (lour handled by the linn, and other products of the Dominion's factories, such as soaps, caudles, brush ware, baskets, etc. THE -RED POST" FURNISHING WAREHOUSE. The "Red Post" furnishing warehouse deals almost exclusively in coloniallymnnufactured goods, and the bulk of the articles shown are the product of the firm's own skilled labor and appliances. Mr. J. Ilayden, the proprietor, informed our reporter thai, there is a very general demand for the locallymade goods, on account of the superiority of the workmanship and greater durability of the colonial timbers. In some of the finer classes df work, of course, the fittings and coverings have to be imported, but they are affixed here. For instance, there is on the Devon-street front a very fine Chesterfield suite of furniture built of solid kauri and stuffed with horsehair, finished in a very fine Utrecht velvet. One of the Liardetstreet windows contains a pretty draw-ing-room suite in silk and plush, and a minor handsomely painted by a coloni-jJ artist. A distinct change is the pretty wooden bedstead in antique style showing just inside the main door. Yet a further window contains another splendid piece of work, the output of the linn's factory. This is a cheval dressingtable built of kauri and nicely upholstered, the front being of bird's-eyj totara. A washstand is built to match., the top being of New Zealand rouge marble. There is also a display of brassrail bedsteads, the output of a Dmiediu factory, and Mr. Ilayden has all kinds of furniture made in New Zealand of New Zealand materials. AUCKLAND CUJTULVG COMPANY. The Auckland Clothing Company has devoted one large window to a, display of high-class clothing of Itoslyu manufacture. A feature that cannot fail to impress itself upon the public is the excellence of -the travelling-rugs shown. These are the '"Alpine," "Earnslaw," "Ben Nevis," and "Marama," the latter name having the additional nwril of being New Zealand-made. There is also on view a fine range of men's high-grade suits and overcoats from the same mills, arranged as a background for a colored presentation of the "Roslyn Worsted and Woollen Mills." Blankets are shown, and hosiery. Peeping out from the sleeves of the suits are the cuffs of New Zealand-made while shirts; The travel--1 lcr, suited with a colonial suit anil ■ wrapped in a colonial rug, needs a travelling trunk or portmanteau, and thes. also are shown, manufactured in 0111 I own "tight little island." The managci savs his firm is in the proud position ol • being al.le to supply straight away a 11,1 ) article as shown, the fine window dis t play having been taken from the firm'! - owii large stocks. The window is mad' the more attractive by the use of soon show-cards that are really works of art 11. It. OATTLEY. Mr. IF. It. C'attley has his windov filled with some fine suitings and tron seringa from the Petone mills.