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Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1918, Page 4

The Waimate Witness passes this libel on Pntea: "Patea, according to the local paper's version, lias great days ahead of it. It may. perchance, have, and anyway it needs ail the. consolations find compensations that stimulating, if delusive, prediction of this kind tan promise it. for it is beyond question the most unpicturesque, the most slatternly, insanitary tnd mepliitic looking place not only in the provincial radius, but among the country settlements of tho Dominion. Passing it on the railway, one instinctively applies his handkerchief to his nostrils, and turns away to shut out the nightmare of unredeemed, unmitigated, incarnate and sterile ugliness. It is impossible to conceive of anyone accepting the conditions of existence in such a place except under the direst stress of physical necessity, and the melancholy residents certainly look as if they needed to be sustained and cheered by reminders of the great days ahead of "the village. Patea's little industrial flurry which induces/dreams and delusions, is entirely transitory and impermanent, and du" to a concatenation of accidental circumstances that may disappear any day and leave it empty, forlorn and unhappy." The sale now running at the Melbourne, Ltd., is the greatest since the war started- The huge success of the sale is due, not so much to the low prices, but to the absolute certainty that all lines will soon be very much dchrer and the public are wisely buying largely in advjinee. Nnzol relieves cold '>i the head and Xasal Catarrh.