A NEW INDUSTEY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 851, 26 October 1870, Page 2

A NEW INDUSTEY.

[dunedin evening star.] These cannot be a more certain indication of future prosperity than the introduction of new industries. It is only about three months since Mr Charles Dickie, King-street, arrived in Dunedin, but during that time he has arranged simple but effective machinery for wire working on a scale capable of being in* definitely extended. It was' with much pleasure that to-day we saw the appliances contrived for utilising wood of New Zealand growth. The blue gum has not been long naturalised here, and probably few have thought of turning its qualities to a practical use. Mr Dickie has, however, applied it successfully to the manufacture of nests of sieves of any diameter or guage, and we believe we are rigbr in stating that he can supply them cheaper than they can be imported. Then he showed us specimens of netting which he intends weaving, for a nuuaber of uses, pastoral, agricultural, and ornamental. We really had no idea to how many uses wire could be applied, nor of the beautiful forms into which it can be woven, twisted, and turned until we saw some of Mr Dickie's work. The brewer, the miller, the maltster, the baker, the cook, the farmer, the squatter, the ornamental gariener, the naturalist, can all be supplied with appliances suitable to straining, baking, feucing, riddling, and sifting. Ladies can have luxuriously comfortable verandah or garden chairs in elegant forms at very moderate prices. Flower stands, trellises for training plants or fruit trees, aviaries, can ail be produced at marvellously moderate rates. Even churches, music or lecture halls or Sunday schools could be supplied with elegant and comfortable seats quite a 3 cheaply, perhaps even more cheaply, and certainly of more durable and strong material than in wood-work. We are glad to learn that Mr Dickie has already reoeived orders and has executed works satisfactorily that would otherwise have necessitated importations from Great Britain or America, and from the strong and substantial work shown to us, we should imagine that he is laying the foundation of a manufacture that in time to come is likely to employ a vast number of hands.