CITY IMPROVEMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 16548, 6 October 1917, Page 6

CITY IMPROVEMENTS

BARTON AND TRENGROVE'S NEW PREMISES. Cleanliness is the main essential in the distribution of any land of food, and this is the feature that strikes one particularly in connection with the premises recently fitted up by Messrs Barton and Trengrove as. an up-to-date butchery at the intersection of Princes, Manse, and Stafford streets. This well-known firm started business in a small way four years ago, and it is owing to the firm's enterprise and strict attention to business that their trade has increased to such a magnitude. Civility to customers, prompt delivery of orders, together with supplying tho verv best class of goods, have made this firm's name a household word not onlv in Dunediu City arid suburbs, but in aft parts of the Otago and Southland districts. The firm have made rapid strides during the past four rears, with the result that today this business can be classed as one of tho most important assets of the City. Four years ago Barton and Trengrove started a butchery business in a small shop on the present site, and the trade increased so rapidly that the firm "found it was necessary to add to the premises. The building formerly occupied by the Caxton Printing Worlds was "secured, and for several weeks pa-st tho builders have been busy pulling down -partitions and carrying out the necessary alterations. Tliis extensive work has been completed, and now today the firm are carrying on an enormous trade-in an up-to-date building, which is without doubt one of the •largest wholesale and retail butchers' shops in Otago. The buildings oxtend from the old Caxton Printing Works, in Manse street, up to the Provincial Hotel, in Stafford etreejj. Four rears ago the firm's business was carried out by two men, but the trade has grown to such an extent that to-day the staff totals 18. which number includes shop hands and smallgoods men. On entering the new premises ono is particularly struck by r.he splendid class of goods displayed, the up-to-date appearance of the shop, and the prompt attention to customers. The entrance to the main shop is at the corner of Princes and Stafford streets. This shop is fitted up with brightly polished steel rails, marble counters, and a number of the latest computing scales. The shop is well ventilated, and is fitted with electric light throughout. Adjoining the main shop is an up-to-date pork butchers' shop, which can be reached either by a large entrance leading from the main shop or bv the Stafford street entrance. The firm 'have just had a large freezer, which has been erected in a suitable- room adjoining the main shop. The public can therefore depend on obtaining their supplies fresh and cool, no matter what the weather conditions may be. Adjoining the freezer a new cooling room has been provided, which is a further guarantee that customers will be able to purchase their supplies without the least fear of any tainted meats being foisted upon them. There is a small goods room at the back of .the pemises, which is fitted up with all the •latest machinery, such als cutters and fillers, all electrically driven. Extra cooking rooms for smailgocds have also been provided. The firm do a big trade in all classes of goods. The bacon is all sugar-cured and cut up on the premises. A very large trade is earned out in this line, which is anotlior sure proof of the good quality of the goods supplied. The . output" of sausages is also enormous, as is shown by the fact that on an average about 6,0001b weight of this foodstuff is sent out weekly. The firm are well known almost everywhere for the splendid quality of goods supplied to the public. This is borne out by the fact that Barton and Trengrove have more than once fulfilled orders as far north as Christchurch. It is also a well-known fact that the firm's prices are as low as it is possible to make them for the high-class quality of goods supplied.—[Advt.]