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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6396, 19 December 1907, Page 5

At 2.3 D this morning tli© Fir© Brigade received a call to a fire which had broken out! in a workshop in Old Customhouse street, at the rear of Mr Edwin Arnold's basketware factory. The inflammable nature of.the contents made ready food for the flames, which had considerably damaged tho interior before they were extinguished. The Customs statistics, show that the average value of tea imported into Now Zealand is 29 per cent, higher than in Australia and 21 per cent, higher than in England. This proves that tho resident© of the Dominion are getting better quality tea than are the people in Australia and England. Messrs Nelson, Moate and Co., Ltd., attained their position as the largest importers' of tea in New Zealand by always giving .yood quality, and they maintain that it IB due to their having done so that the average value of tea imported is eo znmdh ahead of Australia and England. ' , " ” * Ladies whose sense of taste rebels at obnoxious medicines when suffering, should consult W. P. Bough, Psycho-Therapcutlst, 53, Abel Smith street, add get that soothing and stimulating treatment which has given relief to numbers of Wellington's elite. Patients visited at their home by appointment-, or at 53, Abel Smith street. * The D.I.C. reminds persons interested that Santa Glaus will arrive at the company’s warehouse at 2.30 p.m. to-day. A ’great array of toys will be displayed-