REDUCING LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1921, Page 7

REDUCING LABOR.

THE SCOOP CONVEYOR. This week a patent Scoop Conveyor has been landed in New Plymouth from America to the order of Messrs. K. Kallil and Co., of Ohura. It is a wonderful labor-saver, and the owners, during the last day or two, have been giving exhibitions of its work in New Plymouth. To-morrow' the scoop is -being taken to Inglewood in order to give the local bodies there an opportunity of seeing its work. On Monday exhibitions will 'be given at Stratford'and 'Eltham, and on Tuesday at Hawera. “The Scoop Conveyor” is a light portable belt elevator, designed to -be handled by one man, and driven by a small single cylinder benzine engine or electric motor. The machine, is manufactured by the well-known Portable Machinery Co., of Passaic. N.J., U.S.A.,'and is as yet not very well known in this country on account of the difficulty hitherto in obtaining shipments* but to those who have been fortunate enough to secure one it has proved a great boon, quite revolutionising the usual method of manual labor. During the past 5 eighteen months the machine has been working for the Auckland City Council, elevating coal for the power house; another has been in use by the wellknown contractors. Winstone, Ltd., and there is one each in the following counties: Raglan. Waipa, . Ohura, Waiapu, Waitomo. Waipawa and Hobson.

The machine has proved a wonderful labor-saver; it does the work with precision, and is simplicity itself. No local body oan afford to -be without one in these days of expensive labor. In a very short time -the machine pays for itself. It is easy to work, and is as “fool proof” as a machine van he. Messrs. Kallil and Co. will be pleased to afford officers or representatives of the local bodies the fullest information, as well a«s explaining its operations. The firm have 'been operating one themselves in the Ohura'district with great success, and this led them to secure another machine and obtain the selling rights for Tarana ki.—Advt.