Page 5 Advertisements Column 4

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9640, 4 November 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 Patent Candle Company, Ltd. with two other large factories, one at Battersea on the Thames, and the other on the Mersey, neir 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 thfir having received (he large number of eighty-six awards at the principal International Exhibitions during the past half century, but especially by the un que fact that rive of these are Grand Prix gained in the g'-eatest candle-pro-ducing countries of the European continen —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 Palrnitino Grand Prize Parastrine Shade, and Beat Stearine Candle; jChikls', Boyal Castle, New Patent and Palmitine Star Night Lights; Begina, Glycerin Cream, said Court Toilet Soaps. Gas Engine and other Lubricating Oils. Glycerin absolutely pine, Price's Soaps and Candles are. stocked by nil Grocers and Storekeepers in the Wui rwapa dißtrict.*