MARGOT GOES SHOPPING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 301, 21 December 1945, Page 2

MARGOT GOES SHOPPING

The Shop for Toys There’s a fine collection of beauti-fully-dressed dolls—some that sleepall eager to be chosen, at P. S. Edwards’, 191 Avenue. A host of adorable toys and some thrilling surprises for boys’ and girls’ gifts are to be found at this well-stocked shop. Umbrellas made and repaired.

For Father and the Boys If you are looking for Christmas presents of clothes for boys, you cannot do better than step into Kooreiy’s. In this shop are khaki shirts and shorts and white sports shirts, similar to the men’s. There are also boys’ I blazers, sun helmets in khaki, grey and blue. Play suits for shirts and shorts for toddlers are in lightweight materials in colours of fawns, greys, and blues. For father there’s an excellent selection of handy and useful gifts. Something New and Different A visit to the attractive gift shop, “Home Accessories,” Trinity Building, will amaze you, for there you will find a great variety of gifts that are new and unusual. Among them are exquisite silk trinket, caskets for the dressing table, stocking tidies, bookends, hand-knitted cosy sets, ornaI mental fire bellows, shadow lamps, i wall plaques, new novelty jewellery and painted woodwork. Christmas I stockings, games, dolls, cuddly toys I and rattles are among many gifts for children. Gift Books for Christmas I Among the lovely new books for I Christmas at Rowell’s big shop in the ; Avenue is “Thunderhead,” sequel to that lovely book, “My Friend Jrlicka.’’ All who saw the film, “Thunderhead,” will want to read the book, and a copy would be welcomed by young or old. Copies of the evergreen favourite, “Cole's Funny Book,’’ is also available for the children, together with lots of other charming books suitable for all ages, fiot forgetting “Corinth end All That,” by the Wanganui soldier, Fred Woollams. Those who prefer to give stationery as Christmas gifts are well catered for as Rowell’s has a truly wonderful range of gift stationery and compendiums are now on show, together with Initial stationery and e very large and varied selection of Christmas cards and calendars. With such a fine stock and a courteous well-trained staff shopping at Rowell's is easy and pleasant.*