ELLIS AND BURNAND’S FACTORY

Waikato Argus, Volume XIX, Issue 2980, 13 September 1905, Page 2

ELLIS AND BURNAND’S FACTORY

Wu arc pleased to bear that tho above | firm have already found their large j building in Grey-stroot too small for I their growing business, and that they , will at onco oroct additions (hal will \ more than double the present size of the present factory. It will take tho form of a large tee in front of the present building, which was purposely put back from Ihe road, as the firm hoped to have to extend there sooner or later, but they did not expect that they would so soon have been forced to enlarge, as when they started at the beginning of this year, they thought they had provided room tor all possible tiade for at least some years, but their efforts to popularise riant for doors and the totara for sashes and outside doors have been so successful that tho additions cannot bo put off any longer without great detriment to the business. They not only send their manufactures all through the Waikato, Waihi, Rotorua, and the Ring Country, but also to Taranaki and Wellington provinces and to Auckland. They have been complimented in Auckland for the quality and beauty of tho Ilium joinery they have sent there. Amongst some of the rimu work sent to Auckland wore some fine seven-panel doors, arches and mantles for Mr ,f. Ambury’s largo house, lately erected; they have been rather a nuisance to him, as all who saw them admired them so much that their fame spread, and the callers to see tho work were almost too numerous. They are just finishing up the joinery work for the now Waikato hospital, and the solid moulded rimu doors they are supplying, as well as the rest of the work for this contract, are exceedingly creditable to tho local factory. They claim that they are selling rimu doors and joinery cheaper than is any other factory in New Zealand. They use a good deal of kauri in their manufactures, but the local timbers, totara and rimu, are quickly taking tho place of kauri, except for one or two special lines where kauri is especially suitable, such as tor fretwork and similar work. They have this month started their butter-box factory, and are now busy making boxes for all the largest butter factories in tho province, and also for all the smaller local companies. They have also just started a steam cooperage, and can now do all kinds of cooperage work sent them; they have been kept full of work since they started and are at present busy, but have always room for one more good customer. The manager, Mr W. >S. Rigby, has had largo experience not only in the colony but in England and the States, and is capable of handling all classes of work entrusted to him, and amongst other work has now in hand a special air-tight jeweller’s front for Mr Howden’s now shop in Victoriastreet, which is work usually left to specialists by wood-working factories, but Ellis and Burnand guarantee that it will be equal to the very best of town work.