ELLIS AND BURNAND, LTD.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16813, 3 June 1926, Page 8

ELLIS AND BURNAND, LTD.

AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT. ATTRACTS MANY VISITORS. Messrs Ellis and Uurnand, Lid., ihe well-known sawmillers and timber merchants, are again attracting large numbers of visitors to the Waikato Winter Show. Messrs Ellis and Burnand, Ltd.. whose yards and workshops are situated in Brycc Street, Hamilton (and which are second lo none in New Zealand), mill daily at their mills in the King Country 100,000 suiier feel of New Zealand's famous mountain limbers, which include totara; rimu, malai and kahikatea. This to the reader may seen incredible, but when it is known thai (100 hands are employed by the company Ibis statement can be rcauilv understood.

To meet Hie requirements of builders, dealers, farmers and others, Ihe Hamilton branch carries large stocks of all grades and classes of limber, aggregating over ' 5,000.000 super feet. In all limber products Messrs Ellis and Burnand, Lid., deal, Ihe firm specialising in building limber, fencing posts, farm gales, pickets, plywood panels, slab firewood, butler boxes, fruit eases, strainer posts, veneers, motor garages, cheese crates, farmers' limber, and oilier articles 100 numerous to enumerate; The 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 with all the. latest machinery, and can deal promptly and efficiently with 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 be purchased for £35. This small but useful construction was the idea of Mr Coombs, the local factory manager. Wilh a view of increasing ils utility the inventor after much thought converted this garage into a seaside cottage without in any way destroying its utility as a garage. This collage is replete In every way, ana is being |iurchascd by farmers for use by their sliarcmilkers and their families. When purchased as a seaside collage, extra tltlings are supplied, wilh Hie result that Hie whole of the interior may, during Ihe day, bo used as a sittingroom and kitchen, and at night Ihe whole may (by a partition on hinges) lie converted into a bedroom. The price of this remarkable collage is £55 complete.

During a conversation with I tic company's representative, our representative learned that 00 per cent, of Ihe price paid for timber in the nonunion went into the pockets of the worker. This, then, is one of the few industries in which the mainstay receive the benefit.

Visitors to the Show should not fail lo view the exhibits, which are lo lie found midway between the Home Industries and Roots Sections.