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Sundry Manufacturers.GAWNE, W., AND CO. (William Gawne) MILBURN LIME AND CEMENT COMPANY
BELL’S ASBESTOS COMPANY (New Zealand Agency) (Thomas Montresor Baldwin, manager), Cumberland and Gaol Streets, Dunedin; Telephone 571; P.O. Box, 364; Hankers: National Hank of New Zealand; Manager’s private residence, Queen’s Drive, St. Kilda; Head Office and Factory, Bell’s Asbestos Company, Ltd.. Southwark Street, London. Mr. John Hell, the founder of this important company, was the first to master the art of weaving the mineral fibre, asbestos, by itself, so as to apply it more generally to commercial purposes. The asbestos factory in Southwark street, London, is said to be the largest of its kind in the world. To provide regular supplies of the crude material, the company acquired mines in Canada, which are accounted the most productive asbestos mines known, sufficient material being available to supply the requirements of the works. The manufactured material and the various engine fittings to which asbestos is supplied, are shipped direct to the company’s agencies in different parts of the world. Asbestos when turned out of the factory, takes various shapes, among others may be mentioned, sheeting, tape, mill-board, non-conducting composition, engine packings, pipe covering, fibre, and pure yarn. There is great variety of fittings for water and steam pipes that are specially packed with the manufactured asbestos in some shape or form. The company has many specialities, which have proved to be very valuable, and of which the following may be named as samples:—Bell’s Asbestos “Dagger,” and other packing for high pressure engines, Bell’s Asbestos expansion sheeting, tape, and rings for every kind of steam and water joint, Bell’s Asbestos non-conducting composition for coaling boilers to prevent loss of heat by radiation and consequent waste of fuel, Bell’s Asbestos boiler preservative for removing scale and preventing its formation, Bell’s Asbestoline, the most efficient and economical lubricant known, and Bell’s Asbestos fluid lubricants; also belting hose and India rubber goods. The “Argus” pipe covering is a most useful contrivance for preventing the radiation of heat from steam-pipes, and it is most easily adjusted, as it can be laced on very rapidly, being fixed in short lengths and having elbows, bends and tees. It is surprising to the uninitiated to hear of asbestos in such form as ash wool, paste, powder, and India rubber composition; yet, in these various forms it is applicable for many purposes, and has already proved invaluable as an article of commerce. Besides pushing the sale of the various lines mentioned, and many others which can be inspected at the warehouse in Cumberland street, Dunedin, or at the establishment of Messrs. John Chambers and Sons, who act as agents in Auckland, Bell’s Asbestos Co. (New Zealand agency) act for Messrs. Tangye’s pumps and for the Walker safety hooks for preventing accidents at tip heads by over-running. This ingenious contrivance for avoiding accidents and saving life, carries conviction to the beholders. The Government of Westralia took up this matter with energy, and legislation was introduced making its use compulsory. The business of the company in New Zealand extends to all towns and cities, and travellers make periodical trips in the company’s interests. Mr. THOMAS MONTRESOR BALDWIN, Manager of Bell’s Asbestos Company (N.Z. Agency), was born in Chiselhurst, Kent. England, in 1854, and was educated in his native country. He came to Auckland per ship “White Eagle” in 1875 and for a time was a cadet on a run in Hawke’s Bay. Mr. Baldwin joined the National Bank in June, 1876. and, during a period of nineteen years’ service, rose to the position of manager, which he filled at Milton, Port Chalmers, and elsewhere. Mr. Baldwin left the bank to introduce a patent gold saving appliance of his own and was appointed manager of Bell’s Asbestos Company’s N.Z. agency on the first of December, 1896.
GAWNE, W., AND CO. (William Gawne), Sauce Manufacturers, George Street, opposite Knox Church, Dunedin; Bankers: Bank of New Zealand; Private residence, London Street. Mr. Gawne hails from the Isle of Man, where he first saw the light in 1830, and was educated at Castleton, in his native island. He went to sea as a lad, and rose to the rank of second mate, but owing to a severe wound in the left arm he was compelled to abandon seafaring life in 1851. After two years in the grocery trade in London, he came out to Melbourne, where he followed the same calling till 1863, when he came to Hokitika. He had a goldfields experience on the West Coast, meeting with varying success, after the usual fashion of gold-miners. Whilst on the Coast. Mr. Gawne took part in local affairs, and was attached to the Oddfellows and Foresters Orders, in each of which he occupied the chair. He settled in Dunedin in 1877, where he carried on business as n grocer till May, 1881, when he established the sauce manufactory which he has since so successfully conducted. Messrs. Gawne and Co. occupy wooden buildings erected on freehold land facing Princes street, where they manufacture the Worcestershire sauce so largely used throughout Australasia. It is a special preparation from Mr. Gawne’s own recipe, the ingredients of which are known only to the firm, who import the materials from Mr. Penny and Mr. Bears, both of London. There are two qualities, the piquant, which has a green label on each bottle, and the mild, which is distinguished by a red label. The firm’s trade mark, the three legs of the Manx coat-of-arms, is a guarantee of the genuineness of the article. Messrs. Gawne and Co.’s Worcestershire sauce is sold wholesale throughout New Zealand and Australia, by merchants, and retail by leading grocers and storekeepers. Numerous testimonials have been received by the proprietors from all parts in proof of the popularity and excellence of the sauce, which has achieved almost world-wide fame during the seventeen years in which it has been manufactured.
MILBURN LIME AND CEMENT COMPANY, LTD. Directors: Messrs. John White (chairman), Thomas Brydone, J. W. Brindley, and Frank Oakden (general manager); Head Office, Cumberland Street, Dunedin; P.O. Box,400; Bankers: National Bank of New Zealand; Branch Offices and Stores, Cashel Street, Christchurch, and at Customhouse Quay, Wellington. The company’s cement works are at Pelichet Bay, Dunedin; Druitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales, and at Port Melbourne, Victoria. Their lime kilns are at Milburn, Winton, Otago Peninsula, and at Mount Somers, Canterbury. The capital of the company is £75,000 in 75,000 shares of £1 each. This important and enterprising company was established in 1888, to acquire and work the magnificent deposits of limestone, which have been opened up at Milburn, near Milton. A freehold section of twenty acres, containing a deposit of limestone, which varies from sixty feet in depth, has yielded immense quantities of material from which the products of the company are made. Besides this property, there are several hundred acres of freehold and leasehold which contain valuable deposits, so that millions of tons of limestone are available for the purpose of the company. At the company’s several cement works and lime kilns in New Zealand, over one hundred hands find regular employment. Powerful machinery is used at the Pelichet Bay cement works, the compound engines being two hundred horsepower indicated with steam boilers of equal capacity. The output of the company’s well-known Portland cement and lime has shown a steady increase, year by year. The company have recently acquired the Danish rights from the International Cement Company of Denmark for the whole of Australasia for manufacturing silica Portland cement. This purchase opens up immense possibilities for the company, and the further enormous advance of its already large business. Silica Portland cement, although largely in use in Europe and America, is but little known in the Australasian Colonies; the company have, therefore, caused certain tests to be made under the supervision of Messrs. F. W. Petre and J. Hislop, architects, and Mr. R. Hay, M. lust. C.E., as experts. The experiments were conducted between the ‘20th of October and 25th of November, 1897, the basis of comparison being between imported Portland cement and silica portland cement, and the result in texture, hydraulicity, and tensility, was decidedly in favour of the silica portland cement manufactured by the Milburn Company. Mortar and crushing tests conducted by the same gentlemen showed the silica portland cement to be at least thirty per cent, better than the imported portland cement. A pamphlet entitled “Notes on Silica Portland Cement” has recently been issued by the company, and may be procured on application to the head offices in Cumberland street, Dunedin. ZEALANDIA WATERPROOF COMPANY (Richard Radcliffe Taylor, manager), Waterproof Clothing Manufacturers, etc., Stafford Street, Dunedin; Bankers: Bank of New Zealand; Private residence, High Street. Roslyn. This company was established in premises in High Street, in November, 1889, but, as the business (wholesale only) and the demand for its manufactures rapidly increased throughout the Colony, the proprietor was in 1893 compelled to add considerably to his plant, and removed to new and more commodious brick premises in Stafford Street. These premises afford upwards of 6,000 square feet of floor space, and contain all the necessary plant for turning out large quantities of ladies’ and gentlemen’s waterproof garments, and other rubber articles. The company has a business extending throughout the Colony, and has made a reputation for high class goods. It may be mentioned here that at the New Zealand and South Seas exhibition, held in Dunedin in 1889-90, the company exhibited waterproof in the piece, and garments made up in various styles, such as “Universal,” “Stanley,” “Onslow,” “Hussar,” and “Chesterfield,” which exhibits gained the first and only awards, with special notice, in the “Otago Daily Times” of February, 1890, and in the press of the Colony generally. The Zealandia Waterproof company justly claims to have been the pioneer of this industry in New Zealand. Mr. RICHARD RADCLIFFE TAYLOR Manager of the Zealandia Waterproof Company, was born in Preston, Lancashire, where he received his education and was apprenticed to the wholesale business (including waterproofs, etc.). Arriving at Port Chalmers by the ship “Auckland” in 1878, he was appointed manager of Messrs. Sargood, Son and Ewen’s clothing and woollen department, and, after holding that position for upwards of ten years, resigned to establish the present company. |
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