THE "CHAMPION" "

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 10 August 1905, Page 5

THE "CHAMPION" "

Long-range gun has again broken the Trust lines. The Trust officers are firing recklessly, and are dumbfounded at the courage and strategy of the "Champion," whose colours are nailed to tho mast, and is determined to save the breadwinner from the ravages of the Flour Trust.— Advt. . Somo shopkeepers in Nowtown havo doolarod that their business lias beon injured by tho coming of the oleotrio tramways. Mr. Edward Oollio, manufacturer and rotailor of furniture is not amongst thoso complainants. On tho other hand, ho lias found that residents of tho oily aro atnongs his most liberal patrons, bocaußo they have found that the quick and convenient tramway Bervieo lias brought Nowtown so much nearor to town than was formerly tho caae. Mr. Collio has just completed building operations by means of which his two-story factory nt tho bnck of the shop in Riddiford-streot has bcon doubled in its capacity. Altogether 30 hands aro employed in tho main factory and at tho brnnoh in Potone. A special feature of tho latent addition* at Nowtown is nn air-tight, Bpecially-constructod fumi-gating-room. New Zealand woods havo a tondonoy to toko tho destructive worm, but a treatment off the artiolo of furnituro with a, eourso of the fumes of ammonia in tho fumiptatiug-room is eaid to prevent any attack of tho worm. Oak is also treated in a similar manner, as is tho custom in tho Old Country. Tho factory is boing equipped with a 12 h.p. enjina, and contain* a number of up-to-dftto lftbouMiiviug emd epeolnlty machlaei.