IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS & IRONMONGERS

BRINSLEY AND CO.

COSSENS AND BLACK

FAULKNER, J. W., AND SONS, LTD

Mr. THOMAS STEVENSON

METHVEN, GEORGE, AND CO

REID AND GRAY

SCHLAADT BROS. (Joseph Adolph Schlaadt and Henry Schlaadt),

LAIDLAW AND GRAY (Robert Laidlaw and John Gray),

ROBINSON, T., AND CO. (James Frederick Peake)

THOMSON, BRIDGER AND CO. (James Cox Thomson, Walter Gow and James Allan)

BRINSLEY AND CO. (Richard Brinsley and Phillip Spencer Bett), Ironfounders and Range Manufacturers, Cumberland Street, Dunedin. Bankers: Bank of New Zealand Private residences: Mr. Brinsley, Castle Street; Mr. Bett, Mornington. The business conducted by this firm was established in June, 1895, on a quarter-acre freehold section, upon which a brick building having 2,400 square feet of floor space has been erected. The premises include office, fitting-shop, and foundry, steam-power being used for driving the polishing, drilling and boring machines, emery wheels, etc. There is a cupola with melting capacity up to two tons at a time. Messrs. Brinsley and Co. are the patentees of the celebrated Champion ranges, which are well-known and popular for house­hold purpose-‘, the principle of which is that the draught concentrates the heat on the oven so as to economise fuel and does not waste heat on the outside plates. There is a steady demand for these ranges throughout Otago, and they are frequently sent to other parts of New Zealand, as far as the north as the north of Auckland. The firm have been successful exhibitors at the various local shows in different parts of the Colony. Messrs. Brinsley and Co. are also patentees for Champion furnace fittings for building-in coppers, the word “Champion” being their registered trade mark. Mr. Brinsley was born in Victoria in 1860. and was educated in public schools of that Colony. He came to Dunedin in 1880, and gained general ex­perience in the trade till he founded the business under notice . Mr. Bett who is a son of the Rev. Mr. Bett, a retired Presbyterian minister of Dunedin. was born at East Taieri in 1866, and was educated at Tapanui public school, Milton high school, and at the Normal school, Dunedin. He was brought up to banking, being four and a half years in the Colonial and ten and a half years in the National banks, and was for some time accountant at Balclutha. Mr. Bett retired from the bank and joined Mr. Brinsley in October, 1897.

COSSENS AND BLACK (Alexander Black), Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders, Crawford Street. Dunedin. Telephone, 213. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, Maitland Street. This business was founded about the end of 1874. by the present owner in conjunction with the late Mr. Thomas Cossens, who died on the 25^th of March, 1891. The site on which the works stand measures 200 by 148 feet, and is the firm’s freehold, the buildings being erected in brick. The first building, which was but forty-four feet square, still forms a portion of the foundry, which has been frequently enlarged. At the time of writing, a further extension of the buildings is being carried out, consisting of a Workshop, 102 by 44 feet, and a commodious block of offices, two stories in height, the whole of which are being erected along the street line. The lease of a piece of ground adjoining has also been acquired, in order to increase the yard space. These additions have been found absolutely necessary to meet the ever increasing volume of the trade. The plant is worked by steam generated In a flue twenty horse power boiler, which drives a fourteen horse power horizontal engine, made by Messrs. Marshall and Sons, of Gainsborough. In the engineer’s shop there are several lathes—one, weighing eleven tons, will turn a piece of metal up to six feet diameter, while others are used for finer work—also a splendid planing machine by Messrs. Mathieson and Co., of Glasgow, together with a shaping machine, and a new patent key seater for cutting key ways. Besides these fine machines there are three drilling machines, two wood turning lathes for pattern making, a combined band and circular saw and boring machine by F. W. Reynolds, of London, also for the pattern makers’ use, and every necessary appliance. In the blacksmith’s and boilermaker’s shops, a five cwt. steam hammer by Messrs. Glen and Ross, of Glas­gow, with an eleven inch cylinder, turns out good work. There are four smith’s forges, and two of the lever rivetting machines made by the firm, which will complete thirty rivets per minute. Messrs. Cossens and Black have disposed of a good number of these machines, which are very effective. In this department also is a saw for cutting hot iron, one of Baker’s patent rotary blowers for the cupola, a large binding roller, and four punching machines, the largest of which weighs twelve and a half tons. There is also a huge roller, capable of binding a sheet of iron eight feet long by five-eighths of an inch in thickness. The moulding shop, which is at the back of the section, has a five ton moveable crane and two cupolas, three and two tons capacity respectively, which can be worked at the same time. In the large yard are two massive derrick cranes, capable of lifting five and three tons each. There is also a tar bath, built in brick for dipping mining pipes. The pattern store is the old office built by Messrs. Brogden and Sons, which is filled with patterns of divers kinds, grouped conveniently together, and each numbered and indexed, so as to be easily found when needed. Messrs. Cossens and Black employ from fifty to seventy hands in their extensive works, which are up-to-date in every respect. As exhibitors, the firm have gained some fifteen awards for machinery at the different exhibitions and shows at which they have competed. Mr. Black, the surviving partner, hails from Kincardineshire, Scotland, where he was born in 1847. He was brought up on a farm, his father being a farm servant. Having learned something of the work of a black­smith, Mr. Black was apprenticed to Messrs. James Brown and Co., shipbuilders, of Mont-rose. He was afterwards employed at his trade in Glasgow till 1870, when he came to Port Chalmers in the ship “William Davis.” After some experience on the goldfields, during which he was able to save money, lie joined Mr. Cossens in purchasing the nucleus of the business which had been commenced in a very small way shortly before. Mr. Black was married in 1875 to a lady from Alloa, Scotland, and has four sons and five daughters.

FAULKNER, J. W., AND SONS, LTD. (G. H. Greenwood, Managing Director), Engineers and Ironfounders, Castle Street, Dunedin. Telephone, 710. Bankers: Bank of New Zealand. Private residence of managing director, Roslyn. Established in 1887 by Mr. J. W. Faulkner and his two sons. The business developed considerably, so much so that the leasehold land which is about three quarters of an acre in extent and reaches back to the railway, is almost entirely covered with buildings, constructed^ chiefly of iron. A twenty horse power horizontal steam engine drives the plant in the engineers, blacksmiths’, and moulding shops, where there are seven forges with blast, two lathes, a large bolt and rivet-making machine, live boring and three punching and heaving machines, besides one of Hoot’s blowers for the cupola. There are also two brass furnaces capable of melting two hundredweight of metal, while the cupolas—two in number—will melt two tons of iron at a time. Another very important branch at this factory is wire-weaving, where three large machines—one of which was con­structed on the premises—are hard at work producing large quantities of wire-netting of various widths and meshes, aggregating 1.500 yards per day, about seventy miles of wire being consumed in the process. Each of these ingenious machines possesses 268 eccentrics with rollers ten feet in width, and is capable of twisting three lengths of netting one width of ten feet at one opera­tion. The wire-netting plant is driven by a separate steam-engine of twenty horse­power. Adjoining is the galvanizing de­partment where the rolls of netting are passed through the necessary solutions adapting it for malt-kilns, oat-kilns, wool-drying, gold-saving ripples, etc. The firm manufacture patent wire-cloth and netting of every description, as well as wire-mat­tresses; It also makes plain and ornamental iron-fencing and gates, iron and brass bed­steads, hospital beds of special design, fancy fretwork, and undertakes all kinds of general casting. The firm perform considerable amount of marine work for the Union Steam Ship Company.

GARSIDE. JOSEPH, General Brass-founder, Engineer, Electroplater, Bellhanger, Gasfitter, and Metal Spinner, Bath Street (off Stuart Street), Dunedin. Telephone 383. with floor space exceeding 3,000 square feet. A four horse-power Otto gas-engine drives the machinery, which include self-acting screw-cutting lathe and latest improved turret lathe, two back gear and two small lathes, a scratch rusk lathe for plating work, vertical drilling and boring machines, emery and polishing wheels, and generally a com­plete plant. Eight hands are employed. Mr. Garside manufactures high-pressure water and lavatory fittings, engineers and plum­bers brasswork, garden pumps, and window fittings, undertakes the casting of brass and phosphor bronze and the replating of goods equal to new. He was born in 1840 in Glasgow, aud was apprenticed to Mr. H. Buchan, and was afterwards foreman to Messrs. Armour, Buchan and McVaiie till leaving, in 1874, for Port Chalmers per ship “City of Dunedin.” He was twenty-two years in the employ of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, and foreman for eighteen years before commencing business as above.

NEW ZEALAND ELECTRICAL AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Thomas Stevenson and Arthur H. Poole, proprietors), Castle Street, Dunedin; Telephone 337; Bankers: Bank of New South Wales. Private residences: Mr. Thomas Stevenson, Cutten Street, South Dunedin; Mr. Arthur H. Poole, Waverley Street, Roslyn. In 1890, in conjunction with Mr. H. Postlethwaite, the business of Messrs. Begg and Wilkinson was acquired by Mr. Stevenson, the senior partner. The foundry is one of the best in Otago. There is a splendid machine shop with a floor space of 1,200 feet, and equipped with seven lathes, planing, radial drilling, small drilling, shaping, and screwing machines. One of the lathes is capable of turning a shaft twenty-four feet long, whilst another lathe can turn pieces from twelve to fourteen feet in diameter. The smithy has the same space of floor as the other shop, and contains five forges and two steam hammers. The large boiler-room has a floor space of 4,300 feet. There are also punching and shearing ma­chines capable of working plates 11/4  inches thick and twenty-four inches from edge to edge. In addition, there are the usual com­plement of rolling and drilling machines The boiler is on the multitubular pattern. A special feature of the works is the electrical plant which enables the firm to execute large contracts for electric lighting and the transmission of power. The whole of the machinery including the installation plant, is driven by separate engines. About seventy hands are employed at the works. The company have manufactured horizontal engines for the following Otago firms, viz.:—Messrs. Findlay and Co., flour-millers; Matber and Co., Mosgiel; Electric Light Company of Gore ; Maniototo Flour Mills, Naseby, and the Consolidated Gold Mining Company. They have successfully constructed a number of dredges completely fitted up with ma­chinery, etc. The firm also manufacture high class automatic engines, patent dynamos and motors, as well as all other mechanical ap­pliances for electric lighting, heating, culinary purposes, and for power transmission; also hydraulic sluicing plants, iron and brass castings. The large staff of experts and skilled workmen are ready at short notice to undertake repairs in any portion of the Colony.

Mr. THOMAS STEVENSON, the senior member of the New Zealand Electrical and Engineering Company, was born in Lanark­shire in 1857, and is the second son of Mr. William Stevenson, brickmaker, Glasgow. He was educated at Rutherglen Free Church school and at Glasgow University. In 1870, he was apprenticed to Messrs. Dubbs and Co., the famous locomotive manufacturers, of Glasgow. On completing his indentures, Mr. Stevenson entered the employment of Messrs. Barclay, Curie and Co., shipbuilders, of Glasgow. In 1882, he was appointed inspector of boilers for Scotland for the Man­chester Fire Insurance Company, which he resigned on his departure for the Colony in 1885. He arrived in Dunedin per ship “Victory,” and was employed by the late Messrs. Kincaid, McQueen and Co. He afterwards joined the s.s. “Star of the South” as second engineer, and later was appointed engineer to the Roslyn Woollen Mills, where he re­mained for five, years till he entered into partnership with Mr. Postlethwaite, as previously stated.

METHVEN, GEORGE, AND CO. (George Methven), Iron and Brass Founders and Agricultural Implement Manufacturers, Crawford Street, Dunedin; Bankers, Bank of New Zealand; Private residence, Goodall Street, Caversham. This business was founded in Caversham by the present pro­prietor in 1886. Having leased a harbour board section, Mr. Methven erected thereon a single-story brick building, measuring sixty feet by twenty-five feet, with every convenience for his rapidly developing trade. A 3-horse-power steam engine, made by the firm, drives the plant, which includes a ten and a five inch screw-cutting lathe, a wheel cutting machine, drilling and screwing ma­chines, and every other needful appliance for conducting a good engineering trade. The cupola will melt up to three tons of iron at a time, and a brass furnace is also available on the premises. Messrs. Methven and Co. manufacture chaff-cutters, with requisite horse-gear, seed sowers, turnip-pulpers and shears, and they do a good trade in small castings, made specially light, for plumbers and others. Their customers are found in Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland, as well as nearer home. Large quantities of wood-working machines and dairy factory fittings are made at this estab­lishment. The proprietor was born in 1838 in Dundee, Scotland, where he was brought up to the trade, serving his time in it’s various branches. He landed in Port Chalmers in 1874 from the ship “Corona,” and was for eleven years working foreman for Messrs. Reid and Gray before entering into business on his own account. In local politics, Mr. Methven was a member of the Caversham borough council for three years.

REID AND GRAY, Engineers and Iron-founders, Otago Implement and Machinery Works, Princes Street South and Crawford Street, Dunedin; Telephone 40; P.O. Box, 206; Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. This large business was originally founded in Oamaru in 1868. Five years later the firm removed to Dunedin, as there was not suffi­cient scope in Oamaru for the development of their rapidly expanding trade. They have a large section of laud extending between the two streets above named, on which a fine four-story warehouse facing Crawford Street was erected in the year 1880. This building contains the counting house of the firm, and is used as a store for the materials required in the manufacture of agricultural implements. The site occupied has a fron­tage of 196 feet, and almost the entire area between the two streets is covered with buildings. The smithy works occupy a build­ing 140 feet by fifty feet, wherein are twenty-three blacksmiths’ forges and four furnaces, all of which are kept steadily going. As manufacturers of double-furrow ploughs, Messrs. Reid and Gray have already turned out over 13,000 of these needful im­plements. In the fitting-shop are a number of splendid machines, including multiple drills, one of which bores ten holes in one operation, a milling machine, which cuts grooves in shafts and the teeth of wheels, machines for bolt-screwing, iron-planing, double emery grinding machines, besides a large number of the most recent appliances for performing various requirements connected with their operations. The machinery in the fitting-shop is driven by a twelve horse­power horizontal engine manufactured by the firm, steam being supplied by three Cor­nish boilers. The carpenters’ shop is a two story building with a loft supported from the roof, and measures 180 feet by fifty-six feet. The appliances in this department are of the most complete description, the whole of the wood-work required in connection with the various machines turned out from this factory being made in this building, where a special engine of twelve horse­power is used. The moulding shop is per­haps the most important of the various de­partments of the firm’s premises. Messrs. Reid and Gray manufacture cast chilled shares, of which about a hundred tons in weight are turned out every year. The operation of casting these and the large number of other castings necessary in con­nection with their establishment, is a very interesting one. Messrs. Reid and Gray’s works find constant employment for about two hundred operatives. The manufactured articles turned out by the firm find a ready market not only in all parts of New Zealand, but throughout the Australasian Colonies, their ploughs have been sent as far afield as Scotland and Buenos Ayres. Included in the machines manufactured by Messrs. Reid and Gray are also zigzag and disc harrows, turnip and manure drills’, broadcast seed-sowers, rotary harrows, cultivators, strippers, drays, chaffers and baggers with automatic screw-press, and many other im­plements too numerous to mention. In ad­dition to their large manufacturing trade, the firm are sole agents in New Zealand for the Deering pony Binder, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s threshing mills, Burrell’s traction engines, and the Rudge-Whitworth, Steam’s Yellow-fellow, and Barries’ White-flyer bicycles. Some idea of the extent of their manufacturing operations may be gleaned from the fact that their factory consumes 1,200 tons of Kaitangata coal every year, in addition to 800 tons of smithy coal. Upwards of 400 tons of bar-iron is usually kept stocked in racks, in addition to some 100 tons of standard-iron, while the stock of pig-iron is usually from 200 to 300 tons. Messrs. Reid and Gray having ex­tended their business north and south of New Zealand, found it necessary to establish working brandies in the other important centres of the Colony, viz.:—Oamaru, Timaru, Ashburton, Christchurch, Palmerston North, Auckland, Invercargill and Gore, and they are now (May) fitting up in their Dunedin shops an electric installation. It will be a compound dynamo, complete with arc lamps of the latest pattern sup­plied by Messrs. Chambers and Son, Auckland.

SCHLAADT BROS. (Joseph Adolph Schlaadt and Henry Schlaadt), Engineers and Blacksmiths. Electricians and Manu­facturers, Cumberland Street, Dunedin. Telephone, 557. Bankers, Bank of New Zea­land. Private residence, Castle Street. Established in 1875 in Great King Street this well-known firm continued on their original site till the necessity for larger premises compelled them to move. The building now occupied, which was completed in 1896, stands on the back portion of a free­hold section a quarter of an acre in extent, and is built of brick, wood, and iron, the offices and showroom being in the front of the section. The workshop and engine and boiler house is well lighted by sky and side lights, and contains about 5000 square feet of floorage space. A twenty horse power boiler supplies steam for a large horizontal steam engine, made by the Canal Basin Foundry Company, of Glasgow. Included in the plant are four travelling lathes, three vertical borers, punching and shearing machines, emery wheels—some as large as three feet in diameter— hand punching machines, planing and polishing appliances, and two forges. Messrs. Schlaadt Bros, make a specialty of boot factory plant, turning out such articles as cutting presses, leather rollers, iron lasts, sole cutting knives, and heel and toe plates; they also do a large amount of work in the electrical engineering line. A very useful circular saw bench, with fret saw attachment for foot or hand power, or both combined, is made by the firm. It consists of a circular and scroll saw, the circular saw being the machine proper, with the scroll saw as an attachment, and it can be supplied with or without the latter, as may be preferred. This combination enables Messrs. Schlaadt Bros, to supply at much smaller cost than would be possible if made as separate machines. It is adaptable with its different combinations to the performance of a great variety of cabinet and general wood­work, and has already proved invaluable to large numbers who have invested in this class of machine. Both brothers are natives of Ger­many, the senior partner, Mr. J. A. Schlaadt. having been born in 1840, and Mr. Henry Schlaadt, four years later. After five years in Paris and a like period in London, during which he gained large experience, the elder came to New Zealand in 1875, and founded the present business. Mr. Henry Schlaadt also served his time to the trade, and after two years in the Army, serving through the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, he spent three years in Paris, and was then for four years in London, where he was engaged at the office of the “Times.” Coming to Port Chalmers in 1874, he worked at the Otago Foundry, Dunedin, for some time before joining his brother in the present business. He is connected with the German Club in Dunedin, in which he holds the office of president.

Ironmongers, &c.

LAIDLAW AND GRAY (Robert Laidlaw and John Gray), Wholesale and Retail Iron­mongers and Hardware Merchants, Importers of Clocks, Watches, Cutlery, Silver Plated Ware. Organs and Pianos, 19 Rattray Street, Dunediu. Telephone, 180. P.O. Box, 334. Bankers: Bank of New Zealand. Private residences: Mr. Laidlaw, Maitland Street; telephone 189 Mr. Gray, Castle Street North. This business is one of the oldest establish­ments of its kind in Dunedin, and was founded in the early “sixties” by Mr. T. G. Johnston. This gentleman was successively followed by Messrs. Scott and Brown, and Wilkinson and Kiddle, who however eventu­ally resold to the founder. In May, 1894, the present proprietors acquired the business, which they have successfully conducted; in fact, the trade has developed by leaps and bounds, the volume of business having in­creased nearly ten-fold. The premises occu­pied by the firm in Rattray Street, are the property of the senior partner from whom they are leased. They consist of a two-story brick building, having large frontage to the street by a depth of ninety feet. Two tine plate-glass show windows exhibit a choice sample assortment of goods. Within the shop are flue show-cases on either hand displaying silver ware, cutlery, and other goods. The whole of the ground floor is used in connection with the retail business of the firm, while upstairs are four splendid show­rooms, where a large display of mantelpieces, grates, fenders, marble and wood clocks, and other household conveniences is made, the offices being also on this floor. For some time Messrs. Laidlaw and Gray occupied a flat in a brick store on the opposite side of. Rattray Street, where 5,000 square feet of floor space is available. This storage accom­modation being quite insufficient for the growing demands of their business, they have built a new brick store, where they have three floors specially for the storage of surplus stock. They have also a shed for the storing of iron, wire, netting, oil, etc. The firm’s trade extends from Ashburton to Riverton, two travellers being steadily em­ployed and a large number of bands being engaged in the business. Large shipments of goods are regularly imported through ex­perts in London, Hamburg, and New York, including hardware, cutlery, clocks, watches, etc., besides which American organs, and pianos from Europe have recently been added to the numerous lines in which Messrs. Laidlaw and Gray deal. The firm are agents for the celebrated Griswold and other knitting machines, of which a large number have been sold. Mr. Laidlaw, the senior partner, was born in 1860, in Rothsay, -Scotland, where he was educated at the Academy School. Arriving in New Zealand per s.s. “Aorangi” in 1886, after several years he became associated with Mr. Gray in the above business. Mr. Gray was born in Scotland in 1870 and came to Port Chalmers when nine years of age per ship “Invercargill.” He was educated partly in Scotland and partly in Dunedin, and learned his trade as an ironmonger principally with Mr. Johnston, the founder of the business, in which he was likewise engaged for five years before joining Mr. Laidlaw as one of the proprietors.

ROBINSON, T., AND CO. (James Frederick Peake), Agricultural Implement Importers and Manufacturers. Princes Street South, Dunedin. Telephone, 93. Post Office Box, 62. Bankers: Bank of Australasia. Pri­vate residence, Leith Street. This business was established in 1863, as a branch of the Melbourne house. Mr. Peake, who became a partner in the original firm in 1872, has conducted the business on his own account since 1885 under the old style. The premises consist of two story brick and stone buildings —with large sheds at the back—erected on leasehold land, and contain upwards of 10,000 square feet of floor space, where all goods are carefully kept under cover. Messrs. Robinson and Co. are importers of all descrip­tions of agricultural implements and ma­chinery, harvesting tools, and general farm sundries. They are agents for Bamlett’s celebrated reapers, J. and T. Hornsby’s ploughs, Johnson and Field’s winnowing and seed-drilling machines, and Osborne’s reapers and binders; they also act for leading Mel­bourne makers, including the firm of Messrs. T. Robinson and Co. of that city, and for Mr. Thomas Corbett, of Shrewsbury, Eng­land. As manufacturers, they make hillside ploughs, turnip-sowers, and chaff-cutters. Messrs. Robinson and Co. have a well-earned reputation for keeping a full assortment of fittings for all machines in which they deal, to the manifest advantage of their customers. Mr. Peake was born at Honiton, Devonshire, in 1844, and was educated chiefly at the Scotch college, Melbourne. Joining the Melbourne firm, he came to Dunedin in 1866, and subsequently acquired an interest in the New Zealand business, of which he is now the proprietor. As a Mason, Mr. Peake is attached to Lodge Dunedin, and is a past master of that lodge; he is also a past principal of the chapter of Otago, and past grand senior warden of the Dunedin Grand Lodge, E.C. He was married in 1872 to a daughter of Mr. J. W. Jago, and has three sons and four daughters.

THOMSON, BRIDGER AND CO. (James Cox Thomson, Walter Gow and James Allan). Ironmongers, Hardware and Timber Mer­chants, and Wood ware Manufacturers; Wholesale and Retail establishment, Princes Street; Factory and Iron yard, Bond Street, Dunedin; P.O. Box 119; Private residences: Mr. Thomson, Newington; Mr. Gow, Belleknowes; Branch Invercargill, Mr. James Allan, Manager. The large business con­ducted by this progressive firm was estab­lished in the early “sixties” by Messrs. Guthrie and Larnach, and was afterwards conducted by the Dunedin Iron and Wood-ware Company, Limited, till 1887, when the extensive premises in Princes Street South, which at that time were being used by the company for the conduct of their manufac­turing and general trade, were totally de­stroyed by fire. It was soon after that disastrous event that Messrs. Thomson and Bridger became purchasers. In 1894, Mr. Bridger died, and Mr. Gow, who was for­merly manager of Messrs. A. Briscoe and Co.’s Dunedin house, joined the firm in April, 1896. In the following year, having acquired the business of Messrs. Walter Guthrie and Co. Ltd., a branch was estab­lished in Invercargill under the management of Mr. James Allan, who became a partner. Messrs. Thomson, Bridger and Co. are direct importers of all classes of hardware and ironmongery. Their wholesale business ex­tends throughout the Colony, six travellers being employed. The Princes street premises are used for offices and wholesale and retail departments. There are two large double fronted shops with plate-glass windows, one entrance having been closed to make addi­tional window space for displaying stock. The wholesale department is on the first and second floors and cellar. Messrs. Thom­son, Bridger and Co.’s factory in Bond street is thoroughly up-to-date, the plant consisting of sawing, planing, binding, turning, moulding, and other appliances for con­ducting the manufacture of all classes of woodware, embracing rims, spokes, naves, felloes, shafts, special bentwood work, doors, sashes, dairy plant and machinery, churns, butter workers, cheese and milk vats, tallow casks, butter kegs, etc., etc. About forty hands are employed at the factory and over twenty-five at the Princes street establishment. Adjoining the factory is the iron yard, where iron, steel, and other metals are stocked, and where the firm manufacture spouting, ridging, and fencing standards. The building In Bond street is built of brick, two stories in height.

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