STUDENTS' EXCURSION TO BERNSIDE.

Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 5

STUDENTS' EXCURSION TO BERNSIDE.

A number of students from the Dvr.cdin, Technical School and Otago College o. lJ!v;>rluacy accompanied Mr Kidston-Huntei on a visit to Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser's .voiV at Burnside, and were cordially received l>v Mr Smith, the manager, who conducted the visitors through the wozks, and showed the various methods of manufacture of different products, chief amongst which are sulphuric acid, ammonia, acetic acid, linseed oil and meal, and aitifie.a 1 manures and superphosphates. Mr Kidston-Hunter complimented Mr Smith upon tho great advance the firm had made in recent years in their various manufactures, and especially on the up-to-date plant and method of production of superphosphates, -which compared favourably with anything of its kind in the old country. Such an industry was of the greatest importance to the faiming community, and great credit was due to the firm in their endeavour to be abreast of ihe times in this connection. The Dunedin City Abbatoirs wa3 next visited, and Mr Snowball, M.R.C.V.S., kindly showed the visitors round and oxplained the working generally. As the Iratchers \/ere very hnay, the ojierafcions of killing, etc., were teen. The institution is one of the finest m the colonies, and the inhabitants of Dimedin and kuhurbs have a lot to be thankful ior, m that the City Council have so successfully provided a means by which they are assured goccl and hcaiihy feed.