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NZ Truth, Issue 72, 3 November 1906, Page 4

The Wellington Cleaning Co., whic!| , has its head office m 25 Dixon-strpetT, has now installed a new carpet heat-l ing machine, and carpets -•v/ill be^ thoroueihly cleaned -, and renovated hy^ 1 trained workmen. The Company has* m addition, a at<aff <jf chimney sweeps; and window cleaners, whose work; may, m every instance, be thonnigi'-!! \r relied on. • >:

Mr Nelson llliiigworCi completed . his life size bust of the late Premier on Tuesday last, and left by steamer the same nijrht, to see bis work erected m the main liall of the exhibition building. It was originally. intended that the bust should tiaye been placed in'- the lobby m Parliament, J-louw for private view hy-Hhe-mcm-bt-rs previous to beino; sent smith, but at the last moment Mr IHi^jrwnrih's •asr.isUn!; m , some unaccountable- manner Ift -the mould slip, ant! tiife- crown was smashed to afoflis. The damusf ---was at first thought to be irrrcpatabie, ami , Mr lllina;worth- shut himself up m "is studio* prcpartMl.-vo work -'in>ht and day, to fernowl his work. <ri ie lower part of the-, cast, however; was ■ and l>r shwr nUicic ar.tl hani Kraft the artist vise si'"' t:> Tirmturp-a Pl?'--fect cast on '•Turs-day Wist. Owiu}- to some unfortunate misunderstajidin? on the part of the 'frame ?>fonapcv at Lyttelton on Wednesday, last the statue was not raii^l to ChrisftcbTirch and was not m posil ion aY the opctj* ma of t>h« Extoibitiou.'