BRANCH OFFICE OPENED

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 15

BRANCH OFFICE OPENED

North Island Firm’s Expansion

Irrigation was necessary for increased production from the farmlands of the South Island, said Mr A. M. Bisley, founder and managing director of the Hamilton engineering firm of A. M. Bisley and Company, Ltd., at the opening of the company’s new offices, store and workshops in Antigua street. It was said in the United States, that with water and heat anything could be grown. The South Island had. better and heavier soil than the North Island, and all that was needed for greater response from the soil was water.

Machinery firms founded in the South Island had gone to the North Island but, he was told, his company was the first to make the reverse trek, said Mr Bisley, himself by birth a South Islander. Christchurch had developed some of the finest manufacturing industries in New Zealand, said the Mayor (Mr R. M. Macfarlane, M.P.), declaring the premises opened. The expansion of the city was creating difficulties for manufacturers, commercial men and local authorities and they could be solved only by co-oper-ation. He congratulated the firm on extending its service to the farming community of Canterbury. He had not been able to understand the apathy and resistance in Canterbury to certain aspects of irrigation, which was essential for the productivity of the province.