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Otago Witness, Issue 2429, 3 October 1900, Page 2

Business Notices. MAKSHAL.Isj'SOiI'Sg *§£^CX>.*^ SUPERIOR THMSKiKe MACHINERY -OVER 300 PR!Z£S. to H CJ WALKER STJiEET,. DUNEDIN. ~~~ Z' { , , I r~ s * & WTTIfIWI •■£ ■ B b B SI ***■ W & - M | g 4 f """ fciSJci o |oS § H A Urn f^ cs~> ¥ 2f < W y Us I PisKacxi.C£k]| c j. V- S SI f^ <1 t I jVjss^q OcT^i *** t3 ' FROM ALL IRONMONGERS ; - OR, -THE MAKER, PRINCES STKEET, DUNEDIN.

RUBEROID ROOFING. (Extract from the Bulletin, Sydney, May sth, 1900.) THE Sydney "Royal Show was a passing good show in its way, though ifc might have been better. Had the thermometer registered 180deg under a hat, or the mercury cracked the tube with the quintessence of cold, then things would have hummed. As it was, it was an ordmaiy kind of show withovit special feature to impress it on the tablets of the brain in contradistinction to the hundreds of other similar exhibitions that have been held, ever since Fred Webster took the helm, and before. Perhaps the public would rather not have been frizzled up like hash-house bacon or frozen down like refrigerated mutton, but had either of these cdiitingencies ocurred they would have found that shelter awaited them in, -the P. and B. Ruberoid house. There they could have preserved their equanimity while others outside suffered all the pangs of extremes of heat or cold, according as the fates or inclement AVragge had decreed. It is a strong point about Dili's Euboroid that it acts as a kind of instilating material, which, through its being a bad conductor of heat, is equally impervious to the most penetrating rays of an out-back-sun or the hoariest of hoar frosts. A timber and galvanised iron crib is therefore not alongside it for comfort. Nor does it nearly approach it for arbistic appearance. This, however, is a mere detail that doesn't count much where draughts prevail. The whole Alpha and the Omega, and the Beta and the Theta, of the matter hesan the queiy — Is it cheaper? When the local bank manager holds the whip, that is what he will ask. When the mother of six wants a new, bonnet, that is what she will ask. And he man that provides for them all naturally asks - the same question. The reply is that by erecting a P. and B. Rubeioid crib instead of one of the galvanised iron variety you save stuff all the time; you save in the initial cost; you save in construction, eventually saving your breath on oa-ths ; so what more do you want ? A member of the Bulletin staff, who hasn't got a profound craving for dossing in the open, is thinking of petitioning the member for the Domain to log-roll a few Euboroid cribs into his camping-giound. A water-frontage abreast of Lady Macquarie's Chair would bo N.T.S. SDWAEB THOMAS & CO., Bond Street, SOLE AGENTS FOR OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND.

The total number of entries for the solo competitions at the Milton band contest is I (says the Bruce Herald) 49, co that good com- \ uetition may be expected.

! The South Australian Agricultural departJ incnt has received a cable from the AgentI general stating that the War Office is prepared to receive quotations for hay and oats.