A PROGRESSIVE SETTLER.
Improvements on Mr J. Stuckey's Estate.
Electric Power Brought Into
Requisition!
Mr J. Stuckey, of To Rangitumau, has just had erected a large brick farmbuilding, and installed in it the latest machinery fer dealing with crops. The building is 97 x 34, and is very strongly built. The walls are 18 inches thick and 18 feet high. A shed adjoins which is 97 x 16, and will be used for stabling and for keeping farm implements. Excellent water power is obtained by diverting a permanent stream, and bringing the water in a channel from a considerable distance to the shed. A powerful water wheel is erected. With the wator power it is intended to drive the threshing machinery, chaff-cutter, grinding, oat-crusher, and a root-pulper. It is also intended to use it for the shearing machinery in addition to an electrical schemo for lighting purposes. The power house is half a mile away from the homestead, and the electricity will be conveyed there anil also to the workmen's cottages. The floor of the shed is to be of concrete. The grain and straw lofts are particularly commodious, and the plan of the building makes it most convenient for use. All the bricks were made at Te Rangituciau, and Mr C. E. Daniell, of Masterton, was the contractor for the ereotion of the buildr ing. A five-roomed brick house has been erected near the shed, and it is intended to ereot more brick houses later on.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7503, 4 July 1903, Page 3
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247A PROGRESSIVE SETTLER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7503, 4 July 1903, Page 3
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