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In Beautiful Tangerine Colourings THE NEW FRENCH CREPES For Smart Dresses and Blouses 29 inches wide 1/llklyd. THE NEW VOILES In Dainty Colourings - In Stripes, Checks, Shadow effects Pompadour Designs 28 to 31 irl. wide l/4kl to l/9kl yd.

RECORDS BROKEN ON A MATCH-LESS. In Wellington M.C.C. hill climb last fcoek a M h.j). Matchless wiped the fjoor with every other machine opposed to it. . The 'course was one on which fckecr horse-power would tell, being perfectly straight and excessively steep. The "report says: -"In all heats "ami the final the Matchless started like a shot irom a gun. and completely outclassed everything, up to and including aii the 7 h.p. machines. It made fasttst time of the day and record for the liilL'' This is the fourth successive viu in the North Island in four competitions, a side car trial, two hill climbs, and a race on the flat. Be it noted that no other 3i.hp. motor cycle got anywhere near the Matchless in the Wellington hill climb, the nnxt fastest machines being of foreign make, with engines more than twice as large as the Matchless. Matchless Motor Agency, V/. 11. Phipps Black, sole wholesale distributor for N.Z. 92 Manchester Street, Christen urch. .206

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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 166, 19 August 1914, Page 9

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Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 166, 19 August 1914, Page 9

Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 166, 19 August 1914, Page 9

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