WILSON'S (N.Z.) PORTLAND CEMENT.

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 108, 3 November 1926, Page 14

WILSON'S (N.Z.) PORTLAND CEMENT.

A Popular New Zealand Product.

The ever-increasing popularity of Wilson's Star Brand Portland Cement over all other makes is daily demonstrated throughout • i: the ' length and breadth of New Zealand. Hardly a contract is let for the erection of any decent-sized building nowadays but Wilson's cement is specified to be exclusively used on the job. Experience and science have perfected-this'brand and. won and held the. confidence of a largo and increasing body of customers, Until the close, of 1840 Portland Cement, which is 'considered' by far the most important' of the stone cements, and is named front its resemblance to Portland stone, was hardly known, but its use has now extended very greatly in the construction of docks, harbours, bridges, tanks, flooring of, .cowsheds, yards, water-troughs, culyertß,1 fencing posts, sheep and cattle salt pans, garden rollers, and many t>*her articles too numerous to mention here, but the greatest care must be Exercised; in using the best cement procurable, and.' tha^ is undoubtedly Wilson's, which is guaranteed to pass, all standards. No one, perhaps, has come to recognise more than the dairy farmer what a boon Wilson's cement has proved. The. oldtime methods of slab floors in yards, and bails are a thing of the past, and everlasting floors have in most cases been put down with Wilson's cement, and there are still many ways in which farmers can utilise it to great advantage. The Hume Pipe Company, Ltd., use Wilson's cement exclusively in the manufacture of their culvert and drain pipes, water troughs, and various other articles, including fencing posts,, and anyone knows the costly item fencing posts is to the man.on the land, but here again Wilson's cement and patent concrete post moulds come to the rescue. These, with full instructions, can be obtained from Messrs. Manson and Barr, Ltd., Palmerston North, and district agents for Wilson's (N.Z.) Portland Cement, and Hydraulic and Agricultural Lime.