THE DRESDEN'S NEW PREMISES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3989, 15 December 1891, Page 2

THE DRESDEN'S NEW PREMISES.

Eloquent testimony is afforded as to tbe substantial business of the Dresden Pianoforte Manufacturing Company, by the fact that their greatly increased' trade connection has necessitated immediate removal into larger and finer premises at the corner of Lambton Quay and Brandon Street, Wellington. The new bliow room, lofty, spacious and well-lit by large plateglass windows, is admirably adapted for the display of the Company's splendid stock of instru ments. The visitor has, indeed, a fine array to select from, for the average stock consists of no less than seventyfive pianos and about twenty organs. Besides representing every grade of values, these instruments aro from a variety of manufactories, and the Dresden Company prides itself upon being able to supply a piano or an orpan by any and every maker of good repute. Purchasers, therefore, are not only able to choose a piano at any price which suits them, but they are also able to select from all the best English and Continental makers. The same remark applies to the Dresden Pianoforte Company's organs and harmoniums, although at the same time they rather make a speciality of " The Kara Organ," an instrument of such superior quality that they took the step to secure the sole agency for New Zealand of it.

As remarked, the Company's new warehouse is very spacious, and proceeding through the large frobt show room, which has three aisles, and more than double that number of rows of instruments for its full length, we come to the manager's private office on one side, and on the other the room set apart for the use of the clerical staff, while still further through is an extensive apartment devoted to storage purposes and which is shortly to be fitted up as a packing, repairing, and work room. Part of the frontage on Lambton Quay, it should be mentioned, is taken up by the Music Department, which has separate windows, a separate entrance, and also connecting doors with the main premises. This portion ot the building will be fitted up to accommodate a new and most complete stock of boek and sheet .nuaic, and should prove a most convenient and profitable adjunct to the main business.

The floor space upstairs, reached by a fine broad flight of steps, is equally commodious, andincludas a first-class hall suitable for choral and orchestral rehearsals, and also several pri rate rooms for the use of teachers and professors of music. Altogether the premises are admirably suited for the Dresden Pianoforte Company's Urge and rapidly increasing business, and Mr M. J. Brookee, their capable and energetic manager, is to be warmly congratulated upon the wonderful progress which has been made in so short a time since opening in Wellington. The C»mpany certainly is fortunate in the wide range of good instruments it is able to offer the public, and this and tbe freedom with which a piano can be acquired on their remarkably easy time payments, has done much to popularise the establishment. As a further extension, the Dresden Company is now on the point of opening a branch at Wanganui, where, no doubt, they will also do equally well. The aa;ent for the Dresden pianos and organs in the Wairarapa is Mr F. H. Wood, and that gentleman has already, we understand, negotiated a number of transactions satisfactory alike to the purchasers of the instruments and to the Company he represents.