Manawatu Flour Mill.

Manawatu Herald, 7 May 1892, Page 2

Manawatu Flour Mill.

To Messrs Eichter, Nannestad & Co. the credit must be given of possessing one of the best appointed and best conducted flour mills in the Colony. In proof of this assertion it may be stated that Mr P. J. Cullen, the representative of the well-known maker of milling machinery, MiHenry Simon, of Manchester, who is now on a visit to this Colony, inspected the mill £he other day, and he was not 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 latest improvement introduced by the firm is the lighting of the mill by electricity, thus allowing of the mill being worked night 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 71 lights in the building, each of 20 candle power, and in the front of the mill there is a large light of 50 candle power. The dynamo has a lighting capacity of GO-lamp power, and it is driven by a very neatly constructed 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 has full control over the lighting in the building! Each light, besides, has a separate switch, so that any one light can be turned off without affecting the others. It is impossible to get a shock, a fact which Mr Dawson 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 fall working order, and the electric light was showing in all its brilliancy, was an exceedingly attractive one, and it is small wonder that the head millar, Mr Ernstrom, 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 tbe large demand which is being made for the Manawatu roller flour. — M. Times.