INDUSTRIES WEEK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 4

INDUSTRIES WEEK.

ARCHIBALD CLARK AND SONS.

- A man's taste in "dross,-now, sis. always, is primarily justified in ..his'linen occasions of cerenionv or white •= linon is .still..do\rigucur. _ For less foriiiat ; occasions, coloured lmon is now permitted,. ' so long as the; colours harmonise with i-tho clothes and -the.'.'occasion; 1 Thus a man of ■ taste would not ivear a pink shirt on a visit . : of condolence, oven, m tho country. It is not many years sinco moir-bf taste doponded entirely on the > importers-foritheir: ( . linen; but this exhibition of Dominion mdusj> ,tnes gives conclnsivp .proof is well past. There are now made in tho . Dominion- shirts; and- collars ■ tbat> are /. the: equal of any in tho world. . . : Prominent in- this industry are ■• 'Messrs.' ' 'Archibald.Clark and Sons,-Ltd: Jhair-head. / . establishment, is at Auckland, and Ilioy have distributing 'tTaroh6usesA;at i ;Welu2gtolV' alid,' i: elsewhere. Their I faotoricS ■ aii'd : . in tho north are kept going under pre'Ssuro.,: ; From the .beginning, thev have made it a ' .-.rule of .their business only to put on tho i market linen of high grade, cut by experts. I In connection with tins .exhibition oi-iudus J - tries, Messrsr Archibald ;Clark"and Sons' 'ex- | •kbit-of- collars is now. on view at Messrs. Hood Brothors' place •on -Lambton - Quay.' These Zealandia collars "are-perfect in work'mariship and: style. With .such: linen, and. ■' Tsiich care ;in the^- : nialdng,V\th«si''pdssibili^ 4 ;Sf'' frayed edges is reduced to a.'minimum, however hard the 1 wear and washing. ■- r-U'i;The. ; Z(^iiridiai. v ca'rt'f;bes i seen.at Messrs. Davis.and'Clater'sj Lambtonj ; Quay), may be commended quito*as»be&rtiljs .*'oß*'. tnei' dollars-: These s 'shirts'''are .'faithfully' : inado of tho finest material, .arid, they are.jut! ;'fto : fit. These Zealandia' Hnirts 'aro tailored,' rmade /as carefully and cut as scientifically as though. each shirt .-ivas made to tho order ot an individual purchaser. ' .:, : ;lt ; i is: : tlip' .sabe :. with.,; -Zealandia .i • shvrts, which, with the pyjamas, -are exhibit-' : ed at Mn A. J; Bloxham's (late Evison and r , f Lambert's),' Willis Street;: Some- of-thp;shirts have, starched Lfrontfi .'and Scuffs j ; some'; are ■,Vsoft-throughout., The aro, all,pleas-, .ing and. fashionable. 1 .In fact;. it- is Claimed that Zeklluldia shirts: : are' .unquestionably, equal to.,any .that. eome •••*» i ■. In tho-matter of pyjamas, also, colouring is'a.point of importance. A.wide latitude ot colours,is allowed; but even here, latitude- ■':' must >not';!evorrunthe; 'limits' of''. gobd'?taisf .. But as irogards these sleeping suits comfort 'is, : afier *U, the great thing. Pyjamas should .look.well and,fit well; but, moro than all, they must', be perfectly coinf ortaWeVto sthe .; body ih<rcpose, ZealAndia pyjamas fill: 1 thdso 'requirements. There .is: a wide range "of materials, ill exceedingly soft and pleasant m fabric and in tone, and there is no suspicion of close kinship with the old stylo of .. —which wero apparently cut with liberality : to aticommodato a manj'a camolopardj or an ostnch, '

• . MR. FRANK GRADY'S. EXHIBIT. , v Most people aro Under the impression that I 'the vjowellery they,-wear .is -&0 ; -imported" 1 , perhaps it .is, hut there is. absolutely no v reason why it should be so. - It is a fact, how-1 ever, that jewellery, silvorsmithmg, etc.-, can : bo executed in firflt-class• stylo in . ■ land, and, at the.samo timo, at prices that - callow: tho local article,to eompeto wit-li 'importod goods. • It must bo admitted that there are not . a groat number > of oliops : (rf- : i - this. class in ■ tho Dominion, • but that ' dis- ■ tmction is achieved by Mr. Frank Grady, I :./ tho Wilba, Street-jewoller. • Looking: at, tho i shop ifrom ithe streit, a. pleasant'and mvit- I ing.prospect meets the eye, and lt.cannot bo.I denied that tho contents of the windows con-1 ■ .: taming " D^rnMako " articles are , attracting a great.deali of' public attention. .Some i of Mr. Grady's patrons hava allowed him to exhibit things designod and-manufactured . - for-.them, "irad theSOj include ..sterling'. t -Bilvor . i contre-picco ■ and. candelabras, cake- basket, Mayoral ~:Cradlo .. . oigaretto easca, i • jowols, aud regalia, -and the keys - used 'to open the Wellington Public Library and Town . Hall. - In ono part of the: centre 1 'window .thoro are to bo seen a number of articles in . course of manufacture, and some of the tools, .olso .made on.-tho-.promises,.'.fori -the - . making -of the i goods. - The ■ stock goods' exhibited wero, entirely mado on tho premises, and include a: sterling silvor tea and coffee Bervice;;;hot^at^-"ki6rae^clai^Tj^r^ffifnw rests, etc. In jewellery, some fine diamond and other gem rings, gold chains, . links, bracelets, bangles, medals, etc.; aro shownAmong tho more conspicuous jewellery ox- . hibitea are tho presentations: given- to. Sir Joseph Ward/ on tho occasion of bring the first blast m connection with.the Arthur's Pass tunnel, and to. the Hon. Dr. Grace in connection with the. old horso trains, tho Plunket gold Trinity; Gollego medalv. tho K'ob-,' . bell Challenge Shield, 1 presented-to'-tho Third' Wellington Battalion of Public School Cadets, . the Wellington Tennis Associa- . - tion's - the' Feathorpton Golf Club's Shield, the shield presented by the Hon: W. C. Buchanan and Mr. Bunnj for-tho , best gardon plot in'the Stato: schools of the' V/airarapa, set of Now 'Zealand Sheep-, breeders As&iciation's shields; etc: 1 - A'-numi- , ber of woll-dnished groonstono ornaments: ate ako shown. Tho exhibition is well worthy of itispoctioii,' ai\d it reflects" the - greatest credit on Mr. Grady - and bis : competent staffs ' 11 ■"