ROPE WORKS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 279, 6 August 1889, Page 2

ROPE WORKS.

. : t ' .; ■'■ * ■ Day by day se ,p^lic ;j^b6m« awari of new Industrie* bejjagjrtiirted , ' in their midst, the swJoess oi.iwioh ' means the nffdnig tit '• wealth to '■■ tho district. A-t JMoutoa. the firm of Tomuiitb. 4 an 4 V«* qDu6fcT> working,»WMiilli9t ai hack- " I era of the waste tow of the adjoining hemp mills and lately as rope spin-, ners. At tbe present time they hfnW employpd fourteen hands, tlerea heuxg employed in hackling, «w[

tknee m foashing the first hacklipg, i <* In ©i3wt* wojrds, putting the low £hr««j^ a second and fusQt tackle, and in apmniag... Th« in use have been imported direct from Glasgow, >andy appear stt onger anc better fliiished than the Colonial made pn^s;; The ropes made are of all sizeJßjfifoni the small clothes line to the stoutest that there is a sale for, abd th^e samples before us ap- ' pear very \veH made. The firm have also, made a specialite of "baling cois**- being a cheap and strong Bpuntope for fastening the bales^of dres&d fibro': They believe milfers will find it totter to supply this cord to their balers, thajo^all upoit them to make their o\vn. The tow made from the backlog is baled up and sent^|Wßllington. We. learnf that at present t^Q firm ftre as busy as. they can .be filing orders, but as the raw .material i& almost unlimited, the larse^ market they can commandt^je. larger business they could d.0.; ■ W.^i^eniland that they purpose /aaptigm&wg an agent in f'ozton toiu/feMikhak.