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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3169, 21 April 1909, Page 6

C. SMITH, LTD., AVE just opened a large selection of BLOUSE MATERIALS in Delaines, Viyella, and Flannels. Never before have we shown such Variety and, Value. We have opened our L full stock of DRESS MATERIALS, which for Selection and Variety are not to be equalled. Before buying your Winter outfit pay us a visit of inspection, New Millinery, New Jackets, Few Laces, New Insertions. We are showing a large stock of LADIES' NECKWEAR—the latest procurable. UMBRELLAS! UMBRELLAS! We have just opened 55 dozen Umbrellas, from Is to 25s For best value and variety visit C.SMITH, Ltd., PREMIER DRAPERS & CLOTHIERS, MASTERTON.

NO MORE TROUBLE ABOUT DRESSMAKING ! ! LEAVE your measures with Hendry and Buxton, for a Kaiapoi Costume, Jacket or Skirt. The season's sample book has arrived. Hendry AND Buxton, QUEEN STREET, (Opposite Knox Church).

MOFFAT-VIRTUE SHEEPSHEARING MACHINES, AND TANGYE'S KEROSENE OR BENZINE ENGINES. . . F ARGE STOCK of Steam, Gas arid \ J Oil Engine Fittings, Steel Split ulleys, etc. JOHN CHAMBERS & SON, (LraiiTi-ij.) A r ELLINGTOISi. \ Vnd at ATTOKLAN D, CHRISTCHURCH & DTJNEDIN.

TEA BLENDING. AN eminent Tea Expert, writing in the "Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, says :—"Tea blending is a scientific art and the acme of the art is to ' lift' blends up, not to depress them to a dull average. The expert will blend low-priced, medium, and flue quality teas in such a way as to make a ' tine liquoring,' not a medium cup. The great secret is to select for your 5 fetching up ' grade a. tea that can dominate ihe LiLeud. l''or this, great experience and a high-y trained palate are essential. No havd ad fast rules cm be laid down, luit there is a great ytim to beg-iinfd by the' suceeseful individual who by his skill can make, for two or three pence a pound less money, a blond- that shall e.aial the more expensive one of the inexpert blender." 1 In New Zoilar.d expert tea blenders are few Miid far between, and while there are many brands of blended teas on the market, few are the work of real experts. For the most part the teas are mixed in a haphazard kind of way, the main object being the obtaining of a maximum profit. Uniformity of quality or flavour : under such conditions is impossible, and j purity problematical.

There is one firm in New Zealand who have for many years been selling the finest blended teas in Australasia. Blended by an expert of great experience and unique skill, who also has the great advantage of his firm's superior buying and iniDoitiag capabilities, these teas are undoubtedly very fine examples of the blender's art, and at the various prices at which they are soJd they are undeniably the best value obtainable in the Dominion. We refer to "Tiger'' Teas. That they have for so many years retained their supremacy and great popularity in the face of increased competition is evidence of the public's critical abilities. The people of New Zea'"•■ie are, on the whole, good judges of te x, and as " Tiger " Tea is still the pick of the great majority, nothing further need be added, except that they are obtainable from all stores at Is 4d, Is 6d, Bd, Is 10d, and 2s per lb. That at Is 8 : per lb is the most favoured at present. Et is a very fine tea, and those who cannot afford the higher priced " Tiger" Teas find v it quite as good as other brands ot' tea at 2s a lb. Tliose, however, who a'e compelled to buy a low-priced t a will get the best value for tlwir noney, both in quality and flavour, if hoy buy the low-priced "{Tiger" jlends,—(L).