A NEW INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1265, 21 October 1911, Page 4

A NEW INDUSTRY.

$ The art of depositing metals olcetrioally in the solid is well-established on the Continent, but is a new one as far as the Dominion is concerned. It is one that i« associated immediately with sculpture in melal, and was used, to quote a local exhibit, ill tho costing of Alfred Drury's statue of Queen Victoria, which stands iu the Kent' Terrace reserve Hitherto a modeller or sculptor who wished to preserve tho work of his hands in immortal bronze, could not very readily do so, bat the vstablishmcnt in Wellington of the Metallic. Sign and Plating Co,, ],td., will make the road easy in (he future. The studio and laboratory of the company has been established at 35 Nairn Street, under the direction of Mr. Nelson 1 Uingworlh, the well-known sculptor, who has already turned out a goon deal of interesting work with the aid . of tho valuable plant, he has eroded. Examples nf this work, including three panels for tho memorial to the Into Maori chief Tamaliau Mahiipuku, will bo exhibited m the Sinner Sowing Machine Company 8 premises, Willis Street, on Monday. A specialty of tho company's will be tho designing, modelling, nnd depositing in metal of'artistic business signs, and nntnoplntes of all kinds, specimens of which will also to exhibited nextwock.