OUR LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 988, 22 October 1878, Page 2

OUR LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

VIALOU & CO.'S MANUFACTORY.

Though a scattered Waikato is a populous and thriving district, and, as might naturally have been, expected, the public requirements have called forth m different branches of trade a response on the part of the more enterprising of our commercial men. Thus we hava our mills and fellmongeries, our breweries, bonemills, and other local industries, but conspicuous amongst all are the extensive workshops at Hamilton of the firm of Vialou and Co. From the small beginning of six years ago the business has kept pace with the progress of the district, till it now ir eludes many branches of trade, and the stock and show of goods, of various descriptions is unsurpassable the largest, the handsomest, and the most varied of any establishment outside the principal cities m the colony. The show rooms and the ironmongery department have a frontage to Victoriastreet. The former, which occupy the centre of the building, are OUft. x 20ft., and contains samples of the general upholstery and furnishing goods, from which a mansion or a cottage might be fully and thoroughly furnished. The cabinet work is all first class, having been manufactured from well-seasoned woods m the workshops, m another part of the premises. Sofas, drawingroom suites (m chintz, reps, and tapestry), telescope tables, 100 and fancy tables, music stools, pier and dressing glasses, easy chairs, chests of drawers, cheffoniers, side-boards, book-, cases, wardrobes, polished rimu Ara- ! bian bedsteads, all made on the premises, solid, finished, and elegant iv I design, are ranged on either side the visitor who enters the room ; and not these alone, all the minor details of house furniture, elegaul lamps, mats of every kind and description, iron bedsteads, children's cots, fenders and ftreirons, and all the thousand and one j etcetarau,thocostof which those furnishing know but too well may here be j provided both of homely aa4 elegant j manufacture to suit all tasteji and ' means. The ironruongerr department ! is as extensive m its way, including a j yery large assortment of agricultural j implements likely to be called for iv the district, fencing wire, general ir m©Wger/ and. topis, Above i tt fche

upper storey are the upholsterin? room I , room where the matrasses and paliasses are made, and the cabinet work carried on by a large staff of journeyman and apprentices under the management of Mr Gum by. Descending again we come to the large blacksmiths shop?, and carriage factory, m the rear, a building somewhat larger than that facing the main street. Here iron work of every description is manufactured and buggies, carts, wagons and every description of vehicle either built or repaired. Attached to these again is a special buildirg, recently erected, a paint, oil and glass -whare. house, and off this another buildinc appropriated to the painting and reno" rating of carriages. Altogether, the premises are very complete, and one alter another as the trade of the district has grown and the wants of the settlers multiplied, workshops and stock have been added till it may fairly be said that without goin<r out of the district, the people of the Waikato may at Vialou and Co.'s Manufactory at Hamilton provide themselves with anything from a needle to an auchor, though m an inland settlement they are not likely to hanker after the latter article. We would make an even bet, however, or even give two to one that if asked for it would be found that Mr Vialou has it m stock.