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No. 207. City Steam Saw-mills, and Sash, Door, Joinery, Turnery, Spoke, and Woodware Sir,— Factory, Lower High Street, Christchurch, 23rd July, 1880. I forward the following information to show that all the articles enumerated below can be locally manufactured, and that there exists no necessity for importing any of them ; and, further, I am of opinion that, with the present Customs tariff, manufacturers in the same line as ni3 rself will be able to hold their own against imported articles. Owing to the limited space at my command in the Industrial Exhibition lately held in this city, I was unable to exhibit more than a few of the various articles manufactured at my factory. My exhibit comprised the following articles: —Heavy dray-spokes, dressed; light dray-spokes, dressed; spring-cart spokes, dressed and tenoned; carriage-spokes, dressed and tenoned; kowhai carriage-spokes, dressed and tenoned ; bent kowhai timber for carriage-work; improved bee-hive, with machine-made box-frames, as supplied by me to the Canterbury Beekeepers' Association. Turnery, consisting of gable-finials; stair-newels; balusters; ladder-rounds; belaying-pins; couch and sofa fittings, with sawn scrolls ; cornice poles and ends ; chair-legs; chiffonier columns and drops ; drawer stumps and knobs ; gate-post knobs ; cot-posts ; table pillars and drops, with sawn claws ; billiardlable legs (fluted and octagonal); dining-table legs (fluted and octagonal); dressing-table legs (fluted and octagonal); wash-stand legs (fluted and octagonal); desk-legs (fluted and octagonal); French bedposts (fluted and octagonal); pateras. Fret-saw work; scroll-saw work; band-sawn brackets; bandBawn trusses; carved trusses; carved brackets; carved spandrel (oak-branch and acorns); carved spandrel (rose, shamrock, and thistle); carved trusses, with bunches of grapes; carved lion's head; elaborately-carved head, with bunch of fruit suspended; carved caps and bases for plate-glass shopironts; machine-wrought brackets; machine-wrought bolection and other mouldings; machinewrought circular architrave mouldings for door and window heads (similar mouldings can be worked to any radius); machine-wrought waved mouldings on a straight line; machine-wrought waved mouldings on a circular line ; machine-wrought irregular mouldings, elliptic and other curves. As the space which could be allotted to me in so small a building was limited, I was unable to exhibit the following articles also manufactured at my factory, viz : —Machine-wrought 4-panelled double-moulded doors; machine-wrought 6-panelled double-moulded doors; machine-wrought 4panelled bolection-moulded doors; machine-wrought semicircular-head bolection-moulded glass doors; machine-wrought marginal-light sash-doors; machine-wrought framed and ledged doors, stopchamfered ; door-frames; sash-frames; machine-wrought window-sashes, various sizes; machinewrought window-casements, various sizes; machine-wrought mantelpieces ; machine-wrought tabletops, oval and circular; machine-wrought architraves, single and double faced ; machine-wrought ogee mouldings, various; machine-wrought cornice-mouldings; machine-wrought sash-beads and doormouldings ; machine-wrought sunk skirtings ; machine-wrought tongued and grooved flooring, planed; machine-wrought planed, tongued, and grooved beaded lining; machine-wrought rusticated and planed •weatherboards ; machine-wrought planed and moulded feather-edged weatherboards; machine-wrought pickets, planed, pointed, and bored; machine-wrought Venetian-blind laths; sawn plasterers'laths ; baud-sawn felloes for drays, spring-carts, and carriages; band-sawn shafts foi" drays, spring-carts, and carriages ; turned naves for drays, spring-carts, and carriages ; machine-wrought serpentine mouldings; and a great variety of other articles manufactured by wood-working machinery. I have, <fee, The Chairman of the Industrial Commission, Christchurch. F. Jenkins.

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