MINING STUDENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3885, 28 August 1928, Page 29

MINING STUDENTS.

VISIT TC METHVEN’S. The staff and students of the Otago University School of Mines visited Messrs Methven’s manufacturing works at South Dunedin on Thursday afternoon. The visitors were conducted over the extensive plant by the manager and technical staff. The firm specialises in bathroom, sanitary and washhouse fittings. The manufacturing methods and organisation were carefully demonstrated and explained to the students. Great interest -was showm in the machine moulding and casting. A very advanced type of moulding machine was doing a task that, in the absence of mechanical appliances, would require the services of a score of highly-skilled tradesmen. The students-followed the manufacturing processes through the self-operat-ing milling machine to the final stages of finishing for. the market. The methods of producing the firm’s seamless copper boilers excited much curiosity. Herbert Black, lecturer on metallurgy, in thanking the management for the kind courtesy and privileges extended to the School of Mines, said that, after many years abroad, it was indeed a pleasure to find that the metal manufacturing industry in Dunedin so highly developed. He said that in his experience as a metallurgist he had not seen better working conditions or superior metal practice*