NEW CORN CRUSHER.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 367, 14 March 1871, Page 2

NEW CORN CRUSHER.

One of the most practically serviceable j products of local industry yet seen in this city has just been presented to public notice in the'form of anew maize crusher invented and made by Mr. J. Case, of Wakefield-street. Like Mr. H. If. Smith's cooking stoves, it has many qualities resulting from the observations of experience as to the actual wants of colonists. The cast metal things that are imported have been intended for a state of society where every want can be immediately supplied, and where a smash can be at once repaired. It is well known that a nail or _ a piece of stone obtaining accidental insertion will bring the corn-crushing career of one of these instruments to a close. In this instrument manufactured by our local industry, wrought iron in every case takes the place of pot-metal ; and merely a temporary stoppage instead of a smash results from such intrusion of a foreign substance. The machine, which can be supplied at about £10. is simple in the extreme in all its mechanism, and is almost absolutely beyond the possibility of being injured "when engaged in the performance of its duties. A specimen is to be seen at work at Mr. Stewart's coffee-roasting establishment in Wakefield-street. And not only for tho purpose of encouraging local industry, but from the intrinsic merits of the invention, and its thorough adapteduess for the work intended, Mr. Case's corn-crusher deserves the patronage of i all whom it may concern.