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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 5 September 1907, Page 30

Mrs. H. E. Beveridge, George street, Dunedin, is now making a splendid display of seasonable noyelties in millinery, laces, dress fabrics, blouses, underclothing, • etc. Dressmaking a specialty.... The housewife should exercise great care in the purchase of a sewing machine, for if she gets a good one ' it" will last a lifetime. An inferior machine will nevergive satisfaction, will spoil her work and temper, and will always be in the hands of " the mechanical doctor. The well-known White machines, which are sold by Mr. W. Melville, George street, Dunedin, for cash or on the time payment system, are guaranteed for five years.... i

Acetylene v. Electricity.— We learn from the American Acetylene Journal that numerous * electric tramcars in the States are now fitted up with acetylene lights. Electricity may be' good enough to propel the cars, but only- acetylene is deemed suitable to light them and to indicate their rapid progress along the roads. One of the pleasant things ab.out acetylene is that where this light is properly installed in any given case it advertises itself so well that a demand is at once, created for other equipments in the same locality. The town of Jofinsonville has now deciled to give the N.Z. Acetylene Gas Company the order to, instal acetylene for lighting tlie streets and supplying 'the ratepayers.:..