A NEW INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 80, 24 March 1908, Page 4

A NEW INDUSTRY.

A NEW PLYMOUTH CLOTHIM. ; FACTORY. A "Daily News" representative ye.--1 teniay uioruing vi-ited the premises over "The Kasli"' now being fitted up as a. clothing factory by Mr W. 11. Broome. Ihe work is nearing completion. Mr. Broome informed the reporter that lor some time past he has experienced such a demand lor the popular "Prcstweil" suits, and such difficulty at times 111 getting the suits made "exactly to his liking—for he is a practical tailor himself'— that he decided at last to enter upon the manufacture of them. Accordingly he set about re-modelling the first floor of his street premises and ordered the necessary sewing machines, motors, and the usual fittings and appliancel-. The«e are now being placed in |Hi-itiou. I lie l'i-h.p. electric motor will drive teu of the latest "Singer"' sewing machines, arranged five in a row on two lienciie-, with a trough between to catch the completed work. The machine., have a treadle attacbnien'. but this merely performs the saiiiu work as an electric switch. When the treadle is pressed down, the machine 13 set iu motion. When this is released 1 the clutch brake is lifted), and tiic power disconnected. A guard is erected 1 to keep the operatives' clothing clear 1 of the undergear of the machines. A positive pressure lilower i, designed '0 1 pump air iuto the ga-iron. «hie], is t heated by the consumption of the "as- ■' air mixture, euntaining eight parts of I air to one of gas. a very economical '

contrivain-e. A quilting machine is licing installed capable of stitching six rows at once. Every lalHir-saving and time-savftig appliance in modern tailoring i- being installed, and nothing but modern appliance-. .Mr. Broome" considers that he will l,e able to turn out suits more cheaply than many of 'lie bigger lactorie- in the cities, for there will l»e no cost-on -upervisors. Everv eniployee will lie a worker, and practic.il tradesman. He inipre—ed on the visitor tlie fad that the tailoring departmcni. already a fairly big branch of "The Ka-ii " will not be aHi-i/ted at all by lie I.c.v departure, whi.-li i- all entirely -cp. urate I'i.tU'h. '