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Waikato Times, Volume 95, Issue 14933, 2 May 1922, Page 16 (Supplement)

E © IS t A Great Industry! & Bumand Ltd m mm i Wt : m v3>'4c ; : :•••• •■- v> *X ~jr' l-Jp Jfe was ft*. •g£s> $?4 l-ojoww'" jSLy'rtp'yP v y. ■.-•>- sas BoC I®' ;iw#?s2if "- V | ? app , w * - „ « :■:*:*!: yy-^^XyXv-y SB Hoad Offices of tho Company at Hamilton. An Epic of Development! THE founder of Ellis and Burnand, Ltd., was the late Mr J. W. Ellis, who started sawmilling in a small white pine bush near Kihikihi in 1886. The plant then consisted of an S-horse power portable engine, and employed six men, with an output of 1200 feet per day. To-day the Company has six sawmills, employing nearly 500 men, the plant including six locomotives and thirty stationary steam-engines, totalling over 1000-horse power, with a capacity of well over 100,000 feet per day, and is probably the largest sawmilling concern in New Zealand. In 1890 a further area of white pine bush was obtained at Otorohanga—there Mr J. H. D. Burnand joined Mr Ellis in the venture—and a 10,000 feet per day mill was erected. After experiencing the usual vicissitudes of sawmilling in the early stages, the present limited company was formed in 1900, and a large area of timber country, containing totara, matai, rimu and white pine, was obtained near Mangapeehi, on the Main Trunk railway. A sawmill, with a capacity of 25,000 feet output per day, was erected at the railway station, and a tramway formed from the mill to the bush, a distance of about 15 miles, on which two powerful geared locomotives operate, bringing in over 35,000 feet per day, the plant having since been enlarged to deal with this quantity. In 1906 a further move was made by securing a very fine forest at Manunui —three miles from the growing town of Tnumarunui. This forest i's part of the large forest area extending from the Main Trunk railway to the shores of Lake Taupo, and contains the finest timber area in New Zealand. The principal timbers are totara, matai, rimu and white pine. Here a tramway, eight miles in length, has been made, on which two locomotives are kept running. The Company has erected at Manunui what is probably the finest sawmilling, planing and boxmaking plant In the Dominion. The sawmill has a capacity of 40,000 feet per day output, which includes two modern American band-saw benches, a planing machine that puts boards through at the rate of 250 feet per minute, a Linderman jointing machine which dovetails and glues narrow boards together, making them as good as a single wide board, and scores of other machines too numerous to mention. The Company also has its veneer factory here, which is the only one of its kind in the Dominion. At this factory are made three-ply veneer, strawberry baskets, etc. The Company employs at Manunui over 200 workers, and the plant is one of the industrial sights of the district. To further extend its operations, the Company in IW2 secured a large area of timber at Ongarue, but owing to the snortage of men during the war, period, was unable to operate. A sawmill of similar size to the Manunui plant has been erected, and is just commencing work, and in a short time will be turning out up to 30,000 feet per day. The operations here will be of a similar character to those at the other mills of. the- Company, the tramway being completed a distance of seven miles, and locomotives are now running. The bush operations of the Company at its various branches necessitate the employment of a large number of gigantic log-haulers with wire ropes, stretching out in different directions up to one mile in length. The company does not confine its operations to large mills, as it has two portable mills with a capacity of 5000 feet output each per day, in the Te Aroha district. These mills are cutting Pinus insignia, and are moved about to the different plantations. At all its branches the Company has erected dwellings for its employees, which form townships of their own, and even in the bush the Company has quite a number of cottages to accommodate the married men and their families. The central timber yard at Hamilton is connected with the railway by a private siding, and covers nearly four acres. Supplies are sent (from tlie sawmills lo this depot, where it is stacked and dried, ready for sale. The. Company has erected here in concrete a building, which contains a modern re-cutting plant, consisting of an American bandsaw, several planing machines, circular saw benches, etc., all of which arc driven by hydro-electric power, and are kept busily employed catering for the requirements of the growing borough of Hamilton and surrounding districts. The headquarters of the Company, which is one of the largest industrial concerns in the Dominion, are situated in the fine modern fireproof building shown in the illustration.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Coy., Ltd. Head Office - - - - - HAMILTON m m m m an m m I v l2>;- -lb m m ? r {r®§llWfW S SB mm. ■ l| ? / r - S2**4: J& »« *;3w*3SBK - V. X‘.> Wy ... BANKERS: National Bank of New Zealand and Bank of New Zealand 6<£ p n 1008.” and liavi.itf iis registered office at Tbc Times Buildings., Victoria Street, Hamilton, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 192!