MESSRS. HALLEY AND EWING'S NEW WORKS.

Evening Post, Volume XII, Issue 8, 9 July 1875, Page 2

MESSRS. HALLEY AND EWING'S NEW WORKS.

' There cannot be a more gratifying sign of the .solid progress which this city is making than the large and creditable additions so frequently made to our J^efacturing and business establishments. Among the former, Messrs. Halley & Ewing's new joinering and parpentering manufactory, in Courtenay Place, is a prominent instance. The works are not yet complete, bnt already a cursory glance of inspection will convince the visitor of theirexteutandscope. Thechief point of special interest is the wonderful specimen of modern architectural skill and contrivance called a patent general joiner, which performs every conceivable operation of carpentering and joinering — sawing, planing, mortising, tenon-cutting, moulding,

bevelling, &c, &c, with remarkable rapidity, and, of course, with faultless exactness, turning out the work, not, as often is the case with machines, roughly done, and requiring hand-finishing, J but perfectly finished and ready for use. , The tenons are cut, either by saw or knife, with one movement, the instruments acting from the various directions at the same time, and several different joinering operations can be carried on simultaneously by { means of complicated applications of the motive power. Indeed, the owners continually find some fresh direction in which its powers can be applied, and there is no doubt that it will go through its work with greater rapidity, and necessarily more minute exactness, than a whole of men. It has been imported from the patentee, Mr. Worssan, of the Oakley Works, Chelsea, atacost of over£3oo. Itwill be driven by a steam-engine of 14 horsepower, fitted up on a solid concrete foundation. The engine also will drive a number of other machines and saws, in fact, will be the servant-of-all-work it usually is in such establishments. The boiler was constructed by Messrs. Robertson and Co., of this city, at their works in Old Custom House-street. It is the largest yet made in Wellington. Messr3. Halley & Ewing deserve great credit for their enterprise, and we hope it will prove a highly profitable investment. On this point, indeed, there can be but little doubt. The new establishment is expected to be in full | working order in about a couple of months.