Page 7 Advertisements Column 3

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19376, 10 July 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)

idi n« It IS A FAR CRY from the days of Te Kooti and his murderous band of Maori braves, of the Poverty Bay massacres and of the Coromandel and Otago gold rushes. But it was in these turbulent times that the people of a small Southern town noticed, one sunny day in the year 1563, a man taking down the shutters of his shop for the first time. His small sign hanging above the door told the world that " Hardley was a Plumber and that he Worked in Sheet Metal." That was many years ago., To-day this firm, long since shifted from the Southern town that saw its birth, has grown to be one of the largest manufacturers of Hardware in Australasia. Dairy requisites, brass-founding, piping and every class of sheet metal work is carried out in their huge plant that covers two acres of ground in Newmarket. Their products go into thousands of homes—into factories, stores, offices, farms—into the very buildings themselves. No wonder the stamp "HARDLEYS, LTD," is accepted by Architects, Builders, and Contractors as the highest possible standard of excellence in all lines of metal work. If you want anything in sheet metal work, wouldn't it be advisable to rely on a dependable, well-established firm? Visit us to-day. "Established