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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9568, 14 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 Prick's Patknt Candm Company, Ltd., with two other large factories, one at Battersea on the Thames, and the other on the Mersey, new Birkenhead, covering together thirty acres, and giving employment to abour. 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 unuue fact that five of these are Grand Prix gained in the greatest caudle-pra-ducing countries of the European continent —namely, in Antwerp in 1894, 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, and best i Stearinc Candle; '.Childs', Eoyal Castle, New Patent ond Pulmitine Star Night Lights; Ilegina, 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 Wai arapad istrict.*