LYSAGHT'S GALVANISED IRON.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 15

LYSAGHT'S GALVANISED IRON.

Galvanisod iron plays a very important part in all communities—more so with tho farmer, perhaps, tlian any other. It houses himself and his family, and assistants. It covers his horses and cattlo; the wool-shed, coach-house, and all his outhouses ara covered with it, protecting his working plant and his food supply for. winter feed—oven his manures are now covered to keep them from tho rain. It is the cheapest and best cover ho can get. It is so easily handled and used, one cannot conceive what the farmer did before its advent. The old shingle and boarded roofing was so costly, insecure, and required to much labour. Galvanised corrugated iron was. born about the same time as New Zealand was settled by tho white race. Galvanised iron was invented in the year 1837. Although a sheet of it was exhibited in tho groat Exhibition of ISSI, it was more or less (i curiosity, and it was not for sonio years afterwards that it became a commercial commodity. In tho'year 1857 tho lato John Lysaght put down plant for tho manufacture of it. The application of steam power for corrugating lessened the dost of production very considerably, and galvanised corrugated iron at once become a necessity. Mr. Lysaght increased his power of production as the demand increased, and tho firm now have what is said to bo tho most complete works in tho world. Tho firm of John Lysaght, Limited, have now their own Mines, Steel Works, Moiling Mills, and Galvanising Works. They have their own Spelter Works making tho zinc, which the iron is coated with from virgin ore 3, so that no lead or other deleterious matter—which, is so often used in tho inferior article—can to nscd in their manufactures. They have always been in the first rank, and tho goods turned out by thera aro standard articles of tho world. During the 57 years Which have elapsed since the firm commenced tho manufacture, Lysaghl's Galvanised Iron has had a world-wide reputation, and so universally has Lysaght's iron been adapted to meet the needs of modern civilisation that it can be fund that like the British Empire the sun is always shining on Lysaght's iron. It is frequently stated that, tho iron wo get now is not as good as it used to be. You have only to reflect that all good beings and things are imitated, and imitations aro always inferior, mid sold cheaper tccauso they aro inferior, and in tho race of to-day Hie great ciy is cheapness—low first cost. But is low first cost cheapness? Certainly not, it is too often the reverse. The so-called cheap aTticlo has to bo replaced frequently, and the heavy cost of labour in replacing has to bo borne and added to the first cost, making the so-called cheap article a very dear ono indeed. The freight, cartage, and labour on the inferior article is the same as on the good, but it has to l,e borne twice in the case of the inferior. Tho quality of galvanised sheet iron depends primarily on the duality of the black sheet-iron and tho spelter, and then on tho care with which it is coated. There is no case whero cheapness obtained by inferior quality is more a falso economy than with galvanised iron, for the deterioration once commenced is so rapid as to be out of all proportion to the saving which may havo been effected in the price at the first.

CHAS. DAHL, PALMERSTON NORTH, ' WHOLESALE IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER, Telegraphic Address: "Dahl," Palmerston North. P.O. Box, 41. Bankers:. Union Bank of Australasia. 1 MR. CHAS. DAHL was one of the first manufacturers in his line in the Dominion, and his business is undoubtedly ono of tho largest of its kind in New Zealand 1 . Commencing business in 1882 in a small way, ho has, with tho push and energy characteristic of 'the early pioneers, built up a very flourishing institution. \An inspection of the Warehouse in Main Street, which covers upwards of 3000 ft. of space, will reveal huge stacks of Tents, Tarpaulins, Oilskin Clothing, Horse, and Cow Covers, as well as Hopes and Twines. In the various Factories are to be seen the most up-to-date Machinery in the Dominion. Mr. Dahl also has an extensive Wicker and Rattan Ware Factory, where some very fine work is turned out. It is really an education to go through the works, and ono of tho sights at present to be seen in 'the Boot Factory is the thousands of Wooden Soles used for the manufacture of Clogs, of which Mr. Dahl is the largest manufacturer in New Zealand. Mr. Dahl is a native of Denmark arriving in Now Zealand in IS"G. The firm is represented on the road by Mr. N. L. Dahl in the South Island, and Mr. L. V. Dahl in the North, and agents are to bo found in every town.