NOTHERN ROLLER MILLS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5731, 28 October 1905, Page 10

NOTHERN ROLLER MILLS.

The Northern Hilling Co.’s display was a splendid one, and wo doubt if itr, ten vans and 20 horses' driven by drivers in white costumes could bo surpassed in the Australasian colonics. This comoany’s display was in tho following on den;—No. 1, large waggon drawn by four beautiful blacks with the following mottoes: “The only ‘Champion’ who killed tho Trust,” “Wo hold the ‘Standard.’ ” To remind the public that such was the case Piper Major Fothoringham, plaved several bag-pipe challenges for the' Flour Trust to step out and get, its gruel, hut they were not accepted. No. 2—Large lorry drawn by four lovelv dappled chestnuts. This ,is looked, upon as tho company’s aristocratic team, tho names of the horses being Pnnoo, Princess. Nelson and Togo. _ On this lorry was tho comical “LOiampion ihoorv Club and Orchestral Society, which elicited rounds of applause for its aocurato burlesque playing as it wended it.s way through tho crowded streets. No. 3—Large lorry drawn by threw, ncblo bays. On this lorry were tho company’s products , “Champion” an<s "Standard” muscle-raieera built in the, shape of a fort, with two young soldierson the lookout for the Trust or its spies. The mottoes on the lorry were, “Havo you Been the Trusts?” “Why Champion crushed the Trusts?” No. 4 —Single-horse lorry drawn by adark bay. On this lorry was mounted tho company’s homo short-ranged gun (a# the long-ranged one was defending Cook’s Straits) with two large chests of nil's for the Trust, which were ably di-trl Juried bv t-hc “Champion” gunner, who was labelled (“Out for a Day”), an-l he had a pair of binoculars to eea that the shots had effect; his assistant was a “Champion chip off the block.” No. ’s—Lorry drawn by pair heavy handsome blacks: lorry was loaded with “Muscle Raiser,” the people’s “Champion.” No. C—Following these notable vans’ were the balance cf'tho company’s, dealing with the many virtues of “Champion,” “Wo Knead ‘Champion,’” “‘Champion’ is our Flour.” i Auckland “Star,” October 11, 1905.