Local Enterprise.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 277, 1 November 1902, Page 3

Local Enterprise.

Yesterday a representative of the Advertiser had a look through Messrs Nicol and Scott's Empress Flour Mills, and noted that a number of improvements have been lately made in the machinery. The whole of the milling system has been changed by the introduction of the Wolfe gyrator, a machine which vastly increases the capacity of the mill, besides improving the quality of the flour and saving a great deal of driving power. The gyrator is the machine which separates and grades the " stock *' (or crushed wheat), besides taking flonr off eieh slock, which was not possible bef.H-e. In appearance the machine is an oblong box divide! ii\to four sections each containing five screens. It is mounted on two balance wheals fiipported by four rods working in sockets. The stock is fed into tbe centre of the machine, whioh rocks .vith the same motion am that given a hand sieve. This passes the stock over five sieves of varying degrees of fineness. Anything that does not pass the final test and become flour passes back to the rollers for a second grinding to again go through the gyrator. From the gyrator the stock remaining from the first four dressings is passed on to the finer rolls, then to flour dressers, which complete the process.

We understand that this is the only machine of its kind in the Australasian colonies. This is another tribute to the business energy of Messrs Nicol and Scott, and we trust that their enterprise will give them the reward they anticipate and deserve.