All Amenities of Civilisation
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Available to Islanders
ON page 35 you will find a new advertisement.
It is headed “A Newcomer to the Islands— Aladdin Lighting and Cooking Equipment.”
This Company has done little trade with the Pacific Islands in the past, but has now deve loped many lines which have been tried and tested under Defence Service use, which will be a boon to the Islanders in the future. The whole aim of this Company is to give people in non-electrically reticulated areas the amenities of life that are available to the people in the cities: that is—clean, efficient cooking ranges, portable two-burner stoves, which can be used on board yachts, launches and for camping equipment, and so do away with the old wood burning or smoky wick stoves.
A very important part of anyone’s life is the type of lighting available as, after all, one-third of our lives is spent in the dark. The Aladdin Non-pressure Mantle Lamp will be a boon to Islanders, as it uses a minimum of spare parts, a minimum of fuel, and gives a light equal to the average light. It is so simple that it can be lit by the most unskilled native.
Then there is the Aladdin Stormproof Pressure Lantern, which can be used in packing sheds, on board ship or on verandahs, and will con tinue to function in any kind of a gale.
Then last, but not least, that boon to women —the Aladdin Kerosene Laundry Iron. This Iron has a regulating device which enables them to press, first, say a pair of heavy trousers, and then silks and frail fabrics. We know, of course, that most of the laundry work is done by native labour; but such an iron would be valuable for pressing those dainty silks and fabrics which she is now reluctant to leave in the hands of inexperienced labour.
All of the aforementioned equipment is standard equipment in most of the Australian and American Defence Services, and has been tried under wartime conditions, A representative of this Company will be visiting the Islands in the near future. His job will be to see that all the Company’s products give the utmost service, and that Distributors are available, to enable all Islanders to obtain any of the aforementioned goods they may require.
The Company hopes to arrange demonstrations of its products at your nearest Storekeeper; and we sincerely hope that from now on no one need complain of lack of civilised amenities.