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RAGLAN’S ONLY INDUSTRY

ENGINEERING FIRM IN DAIRY FACTORY YOUNG MEN STARTED WITH £5 EACH "The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND. January 12. Raglan's only industry, a thriving engineering concern set up in an old dairy factory, was started 18 months ago by two energetic young men, Messrs D. C. Irwin and F. Moore. They began with a spot-welding plant and about £5 each. Today, Messrs Irwin and Moore undertake many of the small structural steel contracts for the Tasman Pulp and Paper Company at Murupara. They repair marine engines, mend agricultural implements and have laid the keel for the first of the steel fishing boats they plan to build. Working about a 70-hour week, the engineers hope to build up their “dairy factory” into a 12 to 15-man shop* At present they employ a cosmopolitan but skilled staff of tradesmen—two Dutchmen, a Samoan and a Maori. Their designing engineer is an Englishman, Mr D. Potenger, of Hamilton, who came to New Zealand in 1949 under contract to the Government and has worked as a draughtsman en the design of several New Zealand (hydroelectric power stations. | During a world tour*as an emgineer on merchant ships, Mr Irwin for a time as a fitter for the /‘Daily Express” in London. He brought back to Raglan an English wife. Mr’Mooro widened his experience during a lhreeyear stay in Australia.

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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27556, 13 January 1955, Page 10

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RAGLAN’S ONLY INDUSTRY Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27556, 13 January 1955, Page 10

RAGLAN’S ONLY INDUSTRY Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27556, 13 January 1955, Page 10

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