Manawatu Flour Mill

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 134, 10 May 1892, Page 4

Manawatu Flour Mill

To Messrs Richter, Nannestad & Co, the credit must be given of possessing* one of the best a pointed and best conducted flour mills in , the Colony, In proof of this assertion it may be stated that Mr P. J. Ciillen, the representative of the well-known maker of milling machinery, Mr Henry Simon, of M anchester, who is now on a visit to this Colony, inspected the mili the other day, and he was cot only loud in his praise of the complete character of the mill, but declared without hesitation that it was the most cleanly and best conducted mill he had seen in New Zealand. The lates; improvement introduced by the firm is the lighting of the mill by electricity, thus ailowof the mill being worked nighc and day. Mr Dawson, electrician for the Gulcher Company carried out the ■work, and it is due to that gentleman to say that he has performed the undertaking in a manner highly creditable to himself and satisfactory to the contractors. There are '21 lights in the building, each of 20 candle power, and in the front of the mill there is a laro-e li»ht of 50 candle power. The dynamo lias al ighting capacity of 60-lamp power, and it is driven by. a very neatly conctructed engine of 6-horse power. The insulation is divided into six currents, and is controlled by a switchboard, by the utilisation of which the engineer Ires full control over the lighting in the building. Each light besides, has a separate switch, so that any one light can he turned off withont affecting the others. It is impossible to get a shock, a fact which Mr Pawson exemplified to us, and all the wires are covered up in wooden casings, so that there is no danger of interference. The scene last evening, when the mill was in full working order, aud the electric light, was showing in all its brilliancy, was an exceedingly attractive one, and it is small wonder that the head miller, Mr Ernstrora, took pride in bringing the spectacle under the notice of visitors. The mill is now turning out 40 tons of flour per week, and is kept to its full working capacity in order to meet the large demand whu-b is being made for the Manawatu roller flour. — Times.