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Chockeuv axd Glass Wake !—We have Full Stocks at present, and Invite one and all to inspect our values. No want too small to have our best attention.—H. Bowie, Cromwell. Herbert Haynes and Co., Ltd,, Dunedin, are now showing new Costumes for Autumn and Winter wear. Details and prices of various popular styles are enumerated in their ad on page 3. Mail orders receive prompt sttention. The wireless station at the top of Mount Tinakori, nearly 1000 feet above the sea, is approaching completion. When work begins there, it is expected that all difficulty experienced now in communicating with vessels within a certain radius of the coasts will be obviated, as the messages will not bo impeded by the surrounding hills. Messages to Australia, Fiji, and many of the islands will be a matter of course. At present, in (fact, the apparatus used, on the post office tower enables tho operators to talk to Fiji, 1700 miles off, with ease, as also with vessels between that group and New Caledonia. The new station is the highest wireless installation in the world. It consists of a suitable house built of blue stono quarried within a dozen yards of the= site, standing about midway between two poles of 150 feet each. LINSEED COMPOUND.’ Trado Mark of Kay’s Compound Esscaxso of Linseed for Coughs and colds.

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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2286, 26 February 1912, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2286, 26 February 1912, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2286, 26 February 1912, Page 4