Local Industry

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 154, 25 June 1892, Page 3

Local Industry

H $b$WW> nothing *$&% < *°? s ??: m^. c^ good and !*'a4y«^gesf^h^ commercial int%fr<^'*r^^» much; as the -^fa^l^m^t of 4om industries. In this a»Hl?ecti^fc n^e m ow, ( refer ; t6 the Hokowhitu Tannery of Mr W. Macmilhin,, oil Palmerston- Northland rA^ijirikv Very extensive additions jhave^nfmade to the, premises, which now consist : p£ commodious ,currier/s, ~l^ii#> D 6:## sheds. There are* 2shjfcanr pits, each cap;? ble of cpn-tafaui3^-7s-si4esfor thereabouts, 4 lime and s, soak pits. ; The output at present averages 6Q sides ..of sole, kid, and f harness- |eatW,, besides calf and basils, and is capable of still' further, esrpgugiqnv >^Bhere asreeleTen^haißds.einpioyed; mr the business. The(SU»lity of the material, t\irned out is very su.perjor, and its admitted; excejlence is .■»jrjdeiK;e4 ij the-rreadysaleitmee^s ' jKitfrib [Aupjiland ;and Wellington, as »cj -as locally. Mr ; Mactnillw : has taken out a patent for a class of leather r especially intended for belt lacing, and to supply certain requirements in sriddle^&ia 1 harness iiiakers' business, called " Patent 1 Endurable Lacing and Thpng L^pbef^a strip of. which a quarter of an inch [wide and eight feet in length was proved: to be capable of sustaining ., a t^e^ghjt r of four ; hundred 1^ M^-mik' without, .breaking. The tanning is superintended by>#lr |ttaffd9,;attd n the currying by Mr M. Sedgwibk, both of whom are thoßouchlVi experiencecL in, their several &partments.' J '^r ikacmillan is tofce Congratulated p:h) his ejaterprise^^wibfch in KsetP is i a great factor in ensuring certain.- and permanent , success. <