DOOR SPECIALISTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 104, 23 July 1927, Page 21

DOOR SPECIALISTS

SUCCESSFUL AUCKLAND FIRM MERITS OF MANUFACTURE When a firm has the courage and ability to establish itself with the avowed determination to produce an article which will trend to lessen the need for an imported competing line, it deserves the support of the public. It is such enterprise that has given birth to the cry “support New Zealand goods.” A successful Auckland wood-work-ing institution, Messrs. Henderson and Pollard, Ltd., whose up-to-date elec-trically-equipped works are situated in Mount Eden, set out to prove that New Zealand has the timber and the factory resources and skill to make all the doors this country requires. The stand in Shed 9 affords positive evidence of achievement. The display of doors of artistic design and finish shows that these essentials in home or public building can be made a very substantial decorative factor. Another important advantage is the unequalled beauty of native timbers which respond so well to working cabinet treatment. One sees doors carrying panels or inlays of fascinating mottled rimu, totara and kauri, and totara burr, all of which feature amenability to high polish and reveal the grain. The work an early care-in-the-kiln-drying of selected timber and the specimens displayed are a credit in construction. The parts are put together in a hevy press and are guaranteed for strength. The firm employs 100 hands in connection with its extensive operations, and it supplies doors to all parts of New Zealand. A door on exhibition is of particular interest to visitors, being one of an order of 000 for the Wellington Hospital. It has been done by a special process and is noticed to be minus ledges or other joins that tend to catch dust. Messrs. Henderson and Pollard undertake also various joinery, including the manufacture of desks, cupboards, shelves and other household appointments. A portion of the stand is devoted to a patented kithehenette cupboard with folding door, which drops to form a table. Messrs. Henderson and Pollard, Ltd., manufactured this for a Palmerston North firm.