MASTERTON FARMER'S IMPLEMENT COMPANY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 740, 12 February 1910, Page 13

MASTERTON FARMER'S IMPLEMENT COMPANY.

This business was established: about 1890 when it was known as the Masterton Blacksmith and Wheelwright Manufacturing .Company, Later, it was taken over by tho present company, and- the business now comprises carringe-building agricultural, implements, and. iron and trass moulding, in. addition to, the pork, of a igeiieral horse-shoeing smithy. Since. 1900 the fii'M 1 has gone in for the msnnfacture of iron' work for: bridges, public buildings, and also, for brass casting .work, rill oil a largo scale. > One of the latest jobs ■by tho' - firm ' 'was the supply of all tile iron work for the Utiku suspension bridge, at. a cost of dCOOO.' Everythinij lexcept' the -ropes and: wood was 'suppliqd -by . the company. Tho. firm is how supplying the iron for a truss, bridge near,. Carterton.All the jron used for the 1 , recently-erected : Masterton" Gas Works' plant was obtained, from' the firm's..local.works.. The coach-building trade is administered in every particular, and on the most broadly, comprehensive lines,, and any dass< of -vehicle can be 'made.: to order :-in) very short notice; in- • deed. . The .manager"of- the',firm, Mr. J. •I'auling, was born in Scotland.- His c\ perionco; in -the, trade is. very extensive, his. connectionbeing with such wellkhowii firms as P. . and D,. Duncan and Eeid and Gray. 7 At the present time the firm lias the' Wairarapa- agencies for Messrs.:l>. and D. Duncan,; Booth, 'Mac-, donald. and Company, Andrews, and Beavan, [inil the American International Harvester Company. The. Masterton firm employs. a : " staff, of thiry-five hands, and . the Vpremises . shown in the photographio reproduction in'this ; issue, . nave. a floor spaoe' of''over 10,000 Square feet. - -