TOKOMAIRIRI POTTERY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 276, 12 March 1877, Page 3

TOKOMAIRIRI POTTERY.

VY*> regret to nbsv'rve (says tlie tfr,unfit) that the workmen f'»r tlie Milton rotttry, originally obtained from Staffordshire by Mr. W. M. White, arj gradually being drafted otf to other e Jonta! centres poWswitig more energy and efttefpris:* than our own. Mr. t.o;orgv Hoyd. ot Auckland, has. we understand, ivccnriy a draiu-prpe-maktrg tatablisheieut there, and is about to add t;.e in .ami facte re of pottery to the business, ide has secured the servuvs of tlie only '■ wire-thrower " in the Colony, who left Mi 1,.0n mt S. i. fur day- test, proceeding t> Anchland by the steamer War.aka. Those who vUUed the I'oft--ry white in active op, potion will retuetubt r the neatness and rapidity with which a pteo- of clay was oiuvt- rreil into ev*ry e 'HeetvabU- ?,hape and- ih.-gri by the hands of the thi'owi r. ' who win u t-h. • article was sl-ap«'d , ;r ,t rconn-etifH with th-e revolving table orv wl.it.ii it iiformed l-V saddetoy passing a pv.v fi v, ire tuid-. r it —hence ttie u;uee "v. iiv-throv..-r." The or iirii..-,'.lng op rai;> u -?» pert'oriu'-l by r iM.r'.man, v.: o als - h.a-s- been re- ,■ t ;11 v f.ff-a-'o-d from our midol, ac,-"m----i -an.-I'* I*■v 11 > s sv, ,e ri.U' i lai- ge bvnr. ly .i o Ini ii'j", i-i- tug t !;>■ orby capai- c -and for his dej, t :;i r.,,is t »[• .r>y t and *.ve pre.atnn in til-. I,.c',t en II" eel- pi.etv. TheS'J two ire -pir !-• in e? r r;-a I >!e for the ~l t s -t:i! cM-r;. in i out ot a iVtcry. r "> f; j if. v. ir.U tiieir deparnire tin? chance »« ~u v J"ott, ry V»",.r'.-;» b; mg recommenced und.-r »onie new and ttiore satisfactory ti i,',;:,tion ii. we tear-, ituh. finitely reliiovul. Our advi rU«ing columns were made the means o{ decoying these w»-rk-nn u ehse'.vheve, audi our pviso-nal services uuployed in negotiating their Removal ; lai-f iri r,either eas;- wouh't tiny tl;,.ughfc of having Tokotuairiro had any pri»!laoh) elmttC'-- otteie'l i-i,* tluai services being required here wtihiti a seasonable time, ot w hieli fact to.* a!'n[*ly - atlie-1 ourselves before becoming a party to their removal.