To farmers and others who find the orection of a . windmill a somewhat cuinbersomo and costly performance, the merits'-of tho RiderEricsson hot-air pumping engine (a block of which appears elsewhere) should coino as a relief in tho niattor of domestic water supply. Messrs. Thos. Ballinger and Co., Ltd., Victoria Street, havo ono of tho smaller pattern engines at work to demonstrate their perfection. This engine, which a few chips will keep at the nccessary working point, will lift water 50ft. at the rato of 150 gallons per hour with the greatest ease, a small boy generating the power and attending to every detail of yesterday's demonstration. Messrs. T. Kennedy Macdonald, Limited, sell to-morrow at 2 o'clock, under instructions from the Public Works Department, on the grdtimi, new I'ost Office site, building material, 800 sheets iron, rimu, kauri, etc. Mr. William Sinclair, of Nathan's Buildings, inserts a fresh list of properties for snlo, comprising forms pad building sites, .otq,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 291, 2 September 1908, Page 10
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