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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9562, 7 August 1909, Page 5

It may not be generally known that the greatest candlemaking establishment in the world is in England. It is that of Trick's Patent Candle Company, Ltd., with two other large factories, one at Battersea on the Thames, and the other on the Mersey, Birkenhead, covering together thirty acres, and giving employment to about 2,200 people. The leading position held by the company is shown not merely by their having received the large number of eighty-six awards at the principal International Exhibitions during the past half century, but especially by the un'que fact that five of these arc Grand Prix gained in the greatest candle-pro-ducing countries of the European continent —namely, in Antwerp in 1804, Amsterdam in 1896, Brussels .in 1897, and Paris in 1899 and 1900. Some of the company's specialties'are: Gold Medal Palmitine, Grand Prize Parastrine Shade, anil Peit Stearine Candle; shilds', Royal Castle, New Patent and Palmitine Star Night Lights; Begina, Glycerin Cream, and Court Toilet Soaps. Gas Engine and other Lubricating Oils. Glycerin absolutely pure. Price's Soaps and Candles are stocked by all Grocers and Storekeepers in the Waiarapad istrict.*