MOSGIEL WOOLLEN FACTORY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 12, 21 December 1872, Page 2 (Supplement)

MOSGIEL WOOLLEN FACTORY.

Three large additions, the chief of which is a room 80 feet by 44 feet, with woof of one span, and very well lighted, have lately been made to the Mosgiel woollen factory buildings. It is intended to remove the weaving machinery at present in operation in the upper storey of the part of the factory first built, from that place into the large addition. A new- set of spinning jennies, and a new set of carding engines, are to be placed alongside the weaving machinery in its new place. These new additions will have the effect of economising labor—while the whole of the machinery and operatives will be under the eye of the manager, Mr. Smail. Another advantage is expected in the fact that.the weaving machinery will work with less vibration on the ground floor. In an addition made some short time back to the factory, is a finishing machine, or, as it N usually called “the Yankee.” Since this machine has been in operation, the goods have been turned out from the factory without that roughness which has been complained of in them.

So well pleased are the public w-ith the hosiery, as has been evidenced bv the large- and increasing demand, that Messrs. A. J. Burns and Co. are contemplating an addition to their hosiery machinery. The firm intend to send about fifty exhibits —specimens of their manufactures —to the Christchurch Exhibition, with a view to their being sent to the Vienna Exhibition.— Otago Times.