NEW INDUSTRIES IN AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 3280, 25 August 1873, Page 3

NEW INDUSTRIES IN AUCKLAND.

Auckland seems to be taking the load of the rest of the Colony in the initiation of neve industries. The latest files from that Province contain notices of no less than three. The first is the manufacture at Waiuku of corn brooms similar to those imported from America. The author of this industry has raised an acre and a half of millet or broom corn. This yielded nearly a ton of seed, which is used for feeding pigs, horses, and poultry, while the straw supplied material for the manufacture of fiftyfive dozen brooms, which were readily sold at good prices. A man and hoy can make four dozen brooms in eight hours. Machinery for turning the handles has been erected, and a much larger area is to be sown in millet this year. The next industry noticed is a somewhat similar one—the manufacture of brush ware. Machinery has been erected in Auckland by a person who has discovered a native fibre admirably adapted for making scrubbing brushes of a more durable character than those imported. Several of the New Zealand woods are said to be excellent for brushmakers’ use. The manufacturer in question has recently turned outsoni'3 hairdressers’ rotatory brushes of excellent quality, at a price below that of the imported article The third industry is that of the manufacture of a varnish from kauri gum by a new process. The varnish is said to produce a clear and brilliant polish, even more durable than ordinary oak varnish. The locally manufactured article can, it is said, be sold considerably below the cost of the imported varnish. — Post.