THE MILTON POTTERY WORKS.

Evening Star, Issue 3838, 12 June 1875, Page 2

THE MILTON POTTERY WORKS.

This establishment, just brought into notice through the enterprise of Mr M. W. White is situated close to the main street of Milton’ and the works cover an area of 108 feet by 78 feet. The main building is divided into the following departments;— The making-room, green-room, clay-room, two drying-rooms, hot air-room, biscuit placing-room, biscuit oven, biscuit warehouse, printing - room, dippingroom, and gloat oven, with glost warehouse. In the making-room the following operatives will work The thrower, who turns off eggroups, &c , at the rate of 1,000 a-day ; the turner, who finishes the thrower’s wwk, and; who will shape and trim 1,000, of the above; articles a-day; the handler,, who maves the, handles and spouts fpr oups, &c., &c., to the number 6f 1,000 a-day; the cup and saucer maker, who can throw, off 1,000 of these articles I per day; the plate maker, or flatware presser, who will make 480 dinner plates per diem; the hollow-ware preksers, who make toilet sets r'and thfe'kttendtats, btftlnhhle and female of th&eM 1 watches ■ on which the ware is placed when' bring l git atd.' 1 In the clay cellar is stored the clay dough re-

qmred forth® mtottfacttiwof thfiWMf. In the green-room Stolid, 1 preparatory ' to bißcmto&--This operas - toon is done in-the oven built for that wtiJpose.^ It is called oisemt Ware, from its similarity to well-baked ships bread. The ware is carried to the oven Tiy men called placers, fyptn room, ;QWTbiso3bi&i» contaiMjsom^.l,^© o seggars, hpldtog of Mane i (kmdstofovfareiabgut 80,000 1 is the|aiijy box fo/wbffih thawarPfo / & P thS r ßmoKe and aM-assists % ‘*K)dtti|W evafi temperature.' When the, ovM*s3rlilied sealed up with clay and last-opera-tion is one of the most responaibleanflclelicate of all which the ware undergoes, for on it depends the successful termination of its finish.' The next is the printing-room. Here the ware is printed and passed to the dipping-room, where it-recoivefl itr glazes.- -A smart-dipper -will-dip. 700 dozen plates in a day. The ware is then submitted to the heat of<tho gleet; Tbven, whence, when finished, it is removed to the gloat packed,nnless it ig to:~ undergo enamelling, or bat printing, when it goes through another process. On the cast side of the blocic is the, slip, kiln. Here the slip, technically 1 bo (toQlatiiig 6b .amoA. ..-with water, is evaporated, and ! - c T.y. , before mentidbed obtained. - InJf he, n\ -flheds is the moulders’ and pipe S ir|akers’ department; ittkchfcd'tb which IB tfi«F/' seggar poakers’ shed and the machinery for pipe citing. Next'is 'the salt glared plpd’ !& •'! •When these lyorka' are. in ,fuU working order.» they will employ 200 operatives, besides'lhofiß ’ who -Will receive work 6iit of the district WOlJm—urill-fp.,m s*ooo to 6,000 tons of coal per annum; of straw ■ they will require sixty tons for packing ; of cj-ates from 8,000 to 9,000, creating an immediate demand for basket, osier, and withyware makefS. The ’amount of crockery imported into NeWZealkhd Is L 70.000 worth.;/ The. Pottery Copapanycan sell their ware at : ten per cent., lets, tpan it eah be.importod |<|,F and thus, Jteep more than IitQMO in th<r country. This is'arrived <at by thefaetlthat’' - they can procure al} the raw material in New Zealand in commercial quantities, and atfratWT an a pirwith that ’which is knowfitobe paid for them at the potteries in England ; andbytbe 1 significant, fact, that imported crockery costs ■ percent., including breakage, between? the English potteries’ and ilhe Dunedin ware l Rouses. ..r< . , ~;r