MASTERTON BOOT FACTORY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10686, 13 July 1912, Page 4

MASTERTON BOOT FACTORY

MESSRS HUBBARD BROS. Encouraged by the isuppor't accorded tihem iylnce starting the manufacture bf boots iaii MiaElferton, Hubbard Eivos have considerably ex6.>ided their factory. They have 'taken the commodious 'brick premises in, Queen £l:rec.t, opposite the Queen's Hotel, and have had.ltliem altered and' made adaptable to~" the- wholesale' (manufacture of flbecfe. To enaibfo itWem to tun out a ifkbt-c.'lass articfe !to compete with' imported goods',,, Messrs Hubbard Biros, have introduced .the iktes't ibootmaking and plan't, which is run by n Tangye -gais e'nginie. The' new plant •inohd'es* a cutting press 1 , which startups -out the-ri'dl-3 a'n'd heel in one (piece; a Blake' -stole sewer, which .sews on the sostas by machinery; father (rollers, channeling jnacliine, coirJbination ikish;n,g /machine (for *ew work or repafri?, circular knives, .friction (rollers, irtevc'liv-nig polishing .hrrr.h'ts, and everything that is necoasary for fuming out the completed a>rt*le rfeady 'to wear. <This factory w?ll g,ive employment ito a coiul:demble . number e,f bauds, and iwi'il no doubt grow with 'the requiramen'tisi cf 'the dnstrict. Anyone interested is inivflied to visit tli« (factory '.and. inspect the work in progress.