From Small Beginnings

NZ Truth, Issue 1080, 12 August 1926, Page 9

From Small Beginnings

. '" ■ (By "Truth's" Managing Editor on Tour.) ..'"•.. The firm of Booth, Mac Donald and Company, commenced operations as an importing business, but to-day it is one of the leading agricultural implement making companies m the Dominion. . / Its founders realized that the imported articles were not altogether suited to New Zealand conditions, and the time ar- ' rived when they came to the conclusion that the time Was opportune, for the manufacturing of a certain range of agricultural implements m New Zealand. : That was m 1833, when Booth and Sons occupied half an acre of buildings, with a factory staff of between 20 and 30. ". To-day. the firm which ha,s come into being from this start has factories at Christen arch,. InA^ercargill and Penrosej " Auckland, with a capital of £218,000. It employs 450 hands, including 100 clerks and salesmen.