An ingenious shingle-conveyor, built for the Christchu’vh Tramway Board by a local firm, was used for the first time in the board’- nit at Sockburn on Wednesday (says an exchange). . The .apparatus, which has a reach of 30ft from' the centre upon which it is pivoted, feeds the shingle from the ground level into trucks by means of an eight-ply plain rubber belt 18in wide. This belt runs over a series of curved cleats, and forms a continuously moving 'trough, in which the material is carried. The men who feed it are not required to lift the shingle upon their shovels, as formerly, and as a consequence two men can now do the work which six did before. The saving in wages is? about £2O a week. Owing to the long reach of the conveyor, less moving of trucks arid less track-laying are .required. This is expected to help the working of the pit a great deal.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4323, 28 September 1921, Page 1
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