N.Z. INDUSTRIAL WEEK.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12246, 21 June 1909, Page 5

N.Z. INDUSTRIAL WEEK.

COMMENCED ON SATURDAY.

AX INTERESTING I DISPLAY.

A CALL FOR A LOCAL -LABEL.

"New Zealand; .Industries: Week" opened on Saturday under. auspicious """uustances. The weather was beatititully fine during the day* while in tno evening there was just sufficient briskness in the pleasurable promenade of the Avenue. There was a largo- crowd in the-stre^ts during the evening. when the gaslight showed off to advantage the-windows drcs.ed with goods ,made in New Zealand. The contents of; the windows were sufficient to deepen., New Zea-landers' pride in their native land: ; Though the. number oi .shopkeepers who have specially drescod their windows is not so. large: as could have been wished, the display is an eye-opener as to the productivity of New Zealand. Not only ."is the range of goods made ..in the Dominion, very extensive, "but1 the quality^thV. thing that tells—^is pronounced ; by''■judg.es ;to be equal to anything in thc"worJ^ This is particularly .the. case "!i'n.;;;regard to woollen goods. Various..drapers .and ■tailors have their windp'vYs'full of rugs and blankets./made-' at..Pe.tpne,. Kaiapoi and Mcsgiel, and.these, it can.be :e?id without fear of contradiction,'" are without superior. "Therp is abscjutdy no necessity to impor.tL blankets or rugs," said aileading draper. on\ Saturday night, when a rep'ort^r. -was inspecting a display of these beautiful.-!.articles mado in New "Zealand headded; that the same could.Be: regarding tindorwear, arid, in fac^: every kind of woollen goods.. ; The.rq ,was' nr> need to send Home for'maimfaqtiired wooL grown in New Zealand and then return it to our shores for fsaleV. An examination of the fabrics'will satisfy tho examiner as to the justice "of these remarks, and if "Ne\v. Zealand Industries Week" does' no mnn-e than l)ring New ZeaJanders to a .realisation pf the . value of woollen good^ . madei jn-;itheir own"country it will'not liave been held

! twain.

Outside of woollen giiqds, ironwork, provisions* (sxich asjams, saivces;, cordials, and pick]es)j. bo^ts, and ( a. few other lines, the words .*'Mad©. )n New Wanganui'' ~<)ould -replace , "^lade in New Zealand* £or*]M:actically tlje, 'whblp of ,thfe exhi"6it« ariß.. iUust^tiyfei'of, local industries. : .The.Squtli^r?i:G)i'os^ Biscuit Company, for instance^ slibw^s'.m "diffpreni shops the whole of tHe work turnod out in an up-to-d^t? biscuit works. • Sacks of floiir, milledm Wanganui from> NewZealand wheatj served as rahißarts' for an < astpiiishinigly; -varied display of bj'ead,, cakes, biscuits and confectionery. No meniber of the biscuit ..family _ eeeni!* to-be vacant

Then again, another. local industry which looms :large. is,-W ; kifcU>ck/s s,auce, pickles, bakin'g^ powder, . "stria.- cordials. These are shown in different -'shop windows and they are an eye-pppner as to the exteni!,of tills industry.;-; ,A§jto.-the quality it is needless; to speakij ibe.prjz-s-' ahd diplomas,&peak v for the^seljpes. ' Gilbert's soap 3 fprin Jntesefrfojig exhibits, thai?; at the firm's effio^s -on Tau-r. po £ Quay being distinctly novel', white: various shops—notably ■Kwn^h^n's and, Gaarder's have displaysVwhfck,;^;.aro''as'.attractive a« tho soa-ps are gQ^o^-? , . . Brushware is anotlier,. loca^ industry which Industries Week eho\ild fieyye to make niore widely. kriow"n-' ; „ j4.u,H£:orts,, and conditions■ of .bru^hw'^rejar.e and they, bear comparison^^ yrithvaiiy imported articles (-;' ~ ~,X' . That woodwork oT an exceptionally -high ptandajxl,-js;.' done jDttjJ^Hr^erahd; Son's has long been an; acknowledged fact,' but; the beautiful, exhibits in the firm's -windows w}Xi . convince any. who ' may have harboured doiibts khhjfcctJ One window1 16 ftirhiShcd' as -a drawing-room ahid-ihe-^tiieß'iJsfe' a bedroom. The cabinet niakirig and- itpho'storihg are mag«^we^^7xmdveTery article has been;ma^|- h$ thb fithi.te -.••;•• The stationery ostablishTncnts show unmistaljably'that dhtlie' prtflnction of high-class, printing, bookbindiiig^ etc., New Zealand occuj^Fe^#y^iycrea position, whiles^^h&anui^eait^ivell hold her own. 'Tlifj-' windows enow" ai' largo variety of the: goods ts be found in up-io-&ate -'bookseljing -arid?-' Stationery ,yshops, whi!e; the' work-'-ddre'^ldcaliy;; occupies a, prominent' place. Messrs Willis" and Tones large windows, the -reposiTtori^ ;b£ alKftliat is best in their • lirie. '< of- husi«ess(; ( ,;Mr Al'den has;ooneentid;Wd!;: hiS' efforts on a-display of'-jp^stcartls liri^eI' m New Zealand, This display is a really capital ;b'rie:"'- •■"'■■•"•' ■"■'■'■■''•:■■:'■ +:-~i :l-\. >■•?:■:':::. ■• -

So long as people exist .so long will bo needed remt&iesj Vffe-r thTe;iin<s"--Which flesh is he;r td^' v ih this tesnect' -New Zealand-made remedies accupy a very high' p]ao&. - iMdvmWi^ striiid :■ higher than the time-proved preparationl? by Mr M. rt. Wilton. On&;ofhfe windows show the extont- of his manufactures ami prow a. very interesting add!tioa t-j Wanganui industries. " /':!•■>■'f!*V That New Zealand has no. cause to be ashamed of i£i exponents of • thd 'confectionor's art is proved by? the firte.exhibits in th<» windows of DuAtins/liimited. Special attaiitip'n Has been< devoted to decorative-work,-and it dfc sa-fe -to say that no fxnoi k-work could !be»een. There are fiome splendid specimens of this kind of -■wttr'ky-. the most' strikinglcbeing a wedding ,cak<>,i a, Moorish tempky a Swiss -chaletj"'*-"1 moi3el-":Groth?c teniple, and 'riepre^ntatKms <.6f the lonic- and Sir- Thomas' Liptott's'Shani-rock;--i-> ■■'■■•■• ' '";■■ ;r:;- .-^ --i' ';' :- ' '

, Another New Zealand p-oduct which i§ ; rapidly winning populatf tj* ■& > "Radium" 'boot palish, which ! is: shown in several- boot and other. sliopS, .there-be-ing a 'particulatly good ■>'■ -display in Oricliton and Newman's;. This- polish, which is made by McEeod fend Son, of Martinborough, is not surpas^eedi by any of the imported articles, and its sa^ has. gone nhead by leaps' aA'd'l bouiiids. It is absolutely genuine an<l: i»"a .credit to the Dominion; We mayi.have more to say about it lator oh. > ..... '• .•! :,■■ We proprea to: ;deal fully .with individual shop? during otho.Tveek;''!"-'