Local Industry.
, ■ The jam-industiy seems to be steadily growing at; Nekon. ( As the season'advances (says heiNelson Mail) prepara- ; tions are being;- busily made at thej Nelson 3Tarn Factory m anticipation of; the work that the summer and autumn are to ■: bring mr the shape of jam ' and j sauce making. Sixteen hands are; kept- regularly employed in r making tins | j for the recef tion -ot jam, some scwt of ; tin- being; used' up every day m their; manufacture, which is immensely as- ! isted by an ingenious little - American ' machine used for rolling the tin into : cylidrical form after itihas been- first cut i tby 'another' machirieJ into the required! length. In other directions and bottoms are being cue out, and the ! former- stamped, l while tfiree-Or' four j . boys are kept, at work soldei ing. No ■ jess than 3p6,050, tina, each , to,, hold, a ,pouud ,pf j am, will , be, prepared, tpi* the I coming season, _,and : these are now be-' ing. turned . but at the rate of about \ '2_OQ ajday;* |lt . \\ . . , .';* ... "\X .ZZ I
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 256, 2 October 1883, Page 2
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176Local Industry. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 256, 2 October 1883, Page 2
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