Kaitaia In Carnival Mood

Northern Advocate, 18 March 1939, Page 6

Kaitaia In Carnival Mood

The Kaitaia Carnival Week opened in excellent weather and on the first day enthusiasm was thoroughly aroused by the wonderful window displays and the sporting and other competitions.

All day people paraded the main street inspecting and comparing the different windows. The business people who planned the carnival accepted with cheerfulness that part of the responsibility resting on them for making it a success and the shop assistants rose to the occasion splendidly. * The most comprehensive display was made by D. Archibald and Sons, whose premises have recently been remodelled and provision made for firstclass window displays over a very long frontage. These windows, all built in according to the best ideas permitted a separate display for each of the many departments, from groceries to motor cars.

The North Auckland Farmers’ Coop. sprang a surprise upon all by substituting for an ordinary model in a window devoted to the display of evening frocks. A large , crowd gathered outside the shop as a lady member of the staff pleasingly posed in the window. Noble’s Ltd., are noted for the excellence of the window displays they consistently make. It has come to be regarded as one of the main features of Kaitaia business and what had become a custom did not leave much room for improvement even with the special carnival effort. New ideas were presented and the several windows attracted more than the usual favourable comment.

Mother’s Needs,

Mr P. Yendell had a window in which was shown every necessity and luxury a mother could wish for her baby in clothing and in a window for wool he exhibited an old-fashioned spinning wheel. Daintiness was the keynote with Camish and Company’s display, and the corset foundations which were the main feature lent themselves to a colour scheme as pleasing as it was distinctive.

Kaitaia’s jeweller had good opportunities with his window space and the nature of his goods for doing something impressive and he made full use of his opportunity. Mr. A. H. Horsley gave a window to the display of the latest goods coming under the heading of “Snowwhite.” The mercers were not behind, and their windows in every case were admirable. One man showed, with a black and white background, a dinner suit as the central piece with all that went with it for the perfectly dressed man. The display was a small one and was in a shop a little away from the main business centre, but it came in for major attention. , Other Windows

A. and J. Gray and Mrs. Vazey, who confine themselves to ladies’ wear, made dainty displays with rich colourings.

* Perhaps the most unexpected achievement was the window of a saddler, who transposed the front of a dowdy shop till it might have been supposed that the horse with his richly decorated saddlery and harness had come back again. The grocers were- well to the fore and their windows were in every case very creditable. The fruiterers and confectioners also made the most of their opportunities and Mrs. Marks had a particularly fine display.

Messrs Geo. Rickard and Co’s windows were remarkably ‘good and the goods in the different departments were impressively and skilfully exhibited.

Mr J. Donnelly, finding that his window did not permit of any scheme fitting in with his cycle business had on view an old-fashioned bicycle commonly known as penny-farthing and side by side with it was a modern bicycle.