GOLDEN BAY CEMENT COMPANY

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 113, 9 November 1910, Page 7

GOLDEN BAY CEMENT COMPANY

ARRIVAL OF MACHINERY. The machinery for the power-house plant of the (joideu Bay Cement Company's works at 'lerakoJie Bay, Collingwood, has arrived from Home, and is being 6hipped this week to the sue ot the works. .fracticaily fche whole of the cement-making machinery has already been delivered on the spot by the contractors, Messrs. Turnbull and Jones. Over hity men are engaged in the work of erection and construction at the present time, and moie men are wanted. The boilers, generators, and engines came out by the Huahine and Morayshire. The electrical plant has been supplied by the British Westmghouse Company, of Manchester, through their agents, Meßsrs. Turnbull and Jones. The engines are by Belhs and Morcom, of Birmingham, the makers of the triple expansion high-speed engines in the tramway power-houso here. The Golden Bay plant will be on the same lines. The boilers are Babcock and Wilcox water tube type. The cementmaking machinery has been supplied by Erne3t Newall and Co., of Gainsborough, England. The whole of the machinery m the works will be electrically driven by twenty motors, langing from five to 180 horse povvor. They are ull Oi tho three phase type, this being found to be the k-ust affected by the dust inseparable from the manufacture of cement. The Millburn Cement Company of Otago was equipped by Messrs. Turnbull and Jones with these motors. The wharf is already completed, and with a blight extension will b« able to accommodate the Union Company's West Coast steamers. The whole works, when completed— about next March, it is anticipated—will, it is claimed, be the most up-to-date in the Southern Hemisphere. The Anchor steamer Waimea takes 100 tons of power-house machinery away, to-morrow .to Golden Bay. f