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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 283, 24 August 1908, Page 7

. The Newtown Library will be closed tomorrow and on Wednesday ou account of alterations. , ' If you are contemplating removing, tuo Brst thing you should do is obtain a quotation from ■J. Keir, 36 Jervois Quay, fie has had many years' experience in this class of work, and is in a position to pack, store, and remove qny description of furniture. Ho also clears goods through Customs, and dispatches packages and parcels to any address in the world. Tele, phone No. 1180. CJCS In mind, the business woman always figures to 1110 as one tilting insecurely on a higli office-stool, straining Tier own and the onlooker's nerves—man, as one sitting back comfortably in an arm-chair, looking and feeling' able to adrisa anyone on tlio question of success—Mary O'Connor Hewell, in "Appleton's Magazine." The rubber industry is one of the largest of all modern industries. Thero is hardly a single trade that does not use rubber in some form or other. Without tho use of'rubber, the cycle and motor cai' of to-day would not bavo been possible. One of the largest firms manufacturing rubber goods has just opened direct branches in New Zealand, and the headquarters are situated nt Bedford Row, Christchurch, whore tho Continental Rubber Co., aud that is the firm above referred to, have started operations. Tho Continental. Rubber. Co. are stated to have,worlcs in Hauover, London, Paris, and New York, employing over 10,000 workmen and office staffs numbering over 1000. Wholesale depots are to be found all over the world, and the entire turnover is stated to bo reckoned, not by thousands, .but by millions of pounds. Tho firm specialises in cj'cle ami motor car tyros, rubber sheetings, hoses of all de.scriptions, and many other- lines. One of the most interesting specialities is t)ie building of tho lingo balloons for airships and the airships of Count Zeppelin. Tho French airship's La patrie and La Ville de Paris arc said to liavo boon constncted with Continental bidloon material. The Continental Company aro just about to open a branch factory m Melbourne, Victoria. They claim'that in cycle and motor tyres, they will carry the largost stocks of any firm in Now Zealand. A branch, office-will also be-oponcd at.Albert„Strect,;Aucklan4. • ,