A New WashingMachine.
A fair number assembled at the Cri i erion Hotel on Wednesday morning to see in use the O.K. washing machine, of which Messrs Priest and Holdgate are local agents. The machine is almost wholly of red cypress wood, which will not swell when wet, and is shaped like a re Uriel tub with a lid to it. Inside it is grooved hko a washing board. The clothes are turned b}’ three wooden pegs attached to the inside of the lid, which, by an ingenious arrangement, makes a half turn and then reverses for a half turn. With the machine no boiling is necessary if the clothes are "soaked beforehand, as boiling water is then used. It is very easy to turn, and each batch of clothes takes from, two .to four minutes to become perfectly clean. At the trial soma very dirty stained' clothes 'were put in, and they came out without a mark on thorn. The machine will do the work cf a woman in about one-tenth of the time, and do it with less wear to the clothes. It has a number of other advantages which we have no space to enumerate, but there is no doubt the sales which are sure to result here will bring them before our readei s m a practical manner, ■iminn ~rmlr —-*—
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 132, 23 November 1901, Page 3
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224A New Washing- Machine. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 132, 23 November 1901, Page 3
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