MESSRS. COCHRANE AND SWANN'S NEW PREMISES EAST HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1220, 24 April 1880, Page 2

MESSRS. COCHRANE AND SWANN'S NEW PREMISES EAST HAMILTON.

Extensive workshops are npw being erected by the new firm of Cocharne and Swarm on the site of the late premises of Messrs Sheriff and Swarm, recently destroyed by fire, in Grey-street Hamilton East. The business carried on will be that of carriage makers, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, and general machinists. There is considerable need of an establishment Avhere agricultural machines of all kinds can be repaired and Mr experience in the trade is such as to enable him to meet this requirement with satisfaction to himself and the public, and in this branch of the establishment the firm expect to do business beyond the colony itself. In the establishment in New South "Wales in which he was engaged Air Swarm had practical experience in the manufacture of agricultural implements of various descriptions, and in one instance, that of .■stripping maohii os, tho firm was able to

turn out the implement at considerably less cost than could be done in the Victorian workshops, and he hopes to be able to do the same here ; and, as there will be ample room in the new workshops and every mechanical appliance in the best tools and working gear, the ambition is not only a laudable one, but likely to be realised. The main building, for there are three, has a frontage of 28ft. to Grey^street and a depth of 50ft. Facing the street is a spacious and lofty room, 20ft. square, "with handsome framed windows on either side of tho ample doorway, which will be used as a showroom for the display of carriages, implements, &c , and a painting-room. Behind this is the large workshop or carriage factory, 30ft. by 28ft., including the skillion (Bft. in width), which runs the entire length of the building past the front shop and faces the main street. The timber required in the factory can thus be brought in from Grey-street, and indeed racked under cover within the building without taking up space in either shop. The workshop where the wheelwrights' and carriagemakers' business will be earned on is well lighted, and will be furnished with lathes, tools, and appliances of the newest and best description. Between the main building (at the rear of it), and the smithy beyond, and connecting the two, is the strong shed 25ft. long by 12ft. wide, capable of holding a larger number of horses at one time than even a large business would call for. The smithy itself is a spacious building 32ft. by 29ft., and at the time we visited it the three forges it contains were all busy at work. The building has been put up by the firm themselves with extra carpenters' assistance, and will be finished in a few weeks time, the ordinary work of the business being in the meantime carried on in the smithy. Hamilton East is to be congratulated on the spirit of its residents, who have of late shown considerable enterprise in the erection of new and costly buildings and the opening of business establishments on a scale that would do credit to centres of population far older and of more advanced progress. That their enterprise will be fully rewarded in the future there can be no doubt, for there is around and beyond East Hamilton a magnificent farming district which only requires a few such enterprising settlers as the owner of Broad Meadows, referred to by " Cincinnatns " in our issue of Thursday last, to make East Hamilton the centre of a highly cultivated and thriving agricultural district.