ELLIS AND BURNAND, LTD.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16512, 5 June 1925, Page 8

ELLIS AND BURNAND, LTD.

AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT. ATTRACTS MANY VISITORS. Messrs Ellis and Bnrnand, Lid., the well-known sawmillcrs and timber merchants, are again attracting large numbers of visitors to the Waikato Winter Show. Messrs Ellis and I'urnand, Ltd., whose yards and workshops arc situated in Bryce Street, Hamilton (and which arc second to none in New Zealand), mill daily at their mills in the King Country 100,0(i0 super feet of New Zealand’s famous mountain timbers, which include totara, rimu, malai and kahikatea. This to the reader may seem incredible, but when it is known that 600 hands arc employed by the company this statement can be readily understood.

To meet the requirements of builders, dealers, farmers and others, Hamilton branch carries large stocks of ail grades and classes of timber, aggregating over 5,000,000 super feet, In all timber products Messrs Ellis and Burnand, Ltd., deal, the firm specialising in building timber, fencing posts, farm gales, pickets, plywood panels, slab firewood, butter boxes, fruit cases, strainer posts, veneers, motor garages, cheese crates, farmers' timber, and other articles too numerous lo enumerate. Tli'e firm carry large slocks of dry dressed timber, mouldings, and sash materials, and can supply all orders at shortest notice. The company's joinery department is replete witli all the latest machinery, and can deal promptly and efficiently wilh all orders. Show Exhibits.

Amongst the exhibits at the firm's stand at the Waikato Winter Show is the Standardised Motor Garage. This handsome garage is replete in every way and can he purchased for £.'55. This smalt hut useful construction was tlie idea of Mr Coombs, the local factoiy manager. With a view of increasing its utility the inventor alter much thought converted this garage into a seaside cottage without in any way destroying its utility as a garage. This cottage is replete in every way, and is being purchased by farmers for use by their sharemilkers and their families. When purchased as a seaside cottage, extra nttuigs are supplied, with the result that the whole of the interior may, during the day, be used as a sitting100m and kitchen, and at night the whole may (by a partition on hinges) be conveited into a bedroom. The price of this remarkable cottage is £55 complete. Other exhibits of the company attracting attention are farm gates, white pine butter boxes, inside and outside doors, a circular saw in action, a-ply, etc. During a conversation wiili the, company's representative, our representative learned that (.0 per cent of the price paid for timber in thi; Dominion went into the pockets of the worker. This, then, is one or the few industries in which the mainstay receive the benefit.

Visitors io tlic show should not fail io view the exhibits, which are to lie round midway between the Home Industries and Roots Sections.