LOCAL INDUSTRY AT NGARUAWAHIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1541, 20 May 1882, Page 2

LOCAL INDUSTRY AT NGARUAWAHIA.

+ • A cokbejsPOXDEUt sends us the following :— While the uppei\ regions of the air is so strongly impregnated with the smell of cheese andbaconandfellmonger's skins, it is refreshing to turn one's face to terrafirma and be able to -see and feel something tangible by way of "local industry." The monotonous serenity usually prevailing here was slightly, but agreeably disturbed on Tuesday last, by the public exhibition at work of the first double-furrow plough manufactured in this township. The plough was manufactured by Messrs Paddy and Wallace to the order of R. "Ralph, , Esq., of Huntley, and its public trial took place on our old racecourse in presence of a goodly number of spectators, some of whom had come'allthe way from Huntley and Whatawhata to witness the] trial. During the few days that the implement had been on vi6w at the blacksmith's door • speculation had been rife whether, notwithstanding its handsome appearance it would realize its maker's expectations when put to its work, and as Ngaruawahia is such an insignificant little place, whence nothing great may be expected, the" questions repeatedly asked have been, " could these blacksmiths (whose names are neither Howard nor Hornsby) have really made the plough?" There need not be any doubt on that point, arid it cannot have 'been the first by many that they have made, as the result of the trial must have proved to the most obtuse j but it certainly is the first of the kind ever turned out of a Ngaruawahia -workshop.. f And to judge from,the encomiums passed upon' it on the field, it cannot be surpassed hy any "crack" maker in the colony, 'for its lightness of draught, simplicity of construction, „and its easy adjustment to its work apparent to all.". The trial '%asQpeedily* and satisfactorily terminated by' * its\new b^vner 3eclarmgi" that'he wanted to see 1 no T more m $s v VhV'wSs' perfectly satisfied, ancl 'the '-iplovigh* J wda ' th'ere f ' arid" then ' steered *f or 1 HBuntleyv* r &n&H 'is 1» ;be f hoped, fqi: the#eqf-and public 'benefit* 'of our little 1 fottnship," that,, the, trial- on a"ue^day r w^ i b'ut'thVfirl't bf^v long^ series oi sUcli exhibitions, c >- - ' ,