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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Chambers, John And Son

Chambers, John And Son, Limited, Engineers and Importers, Fort and Gore Streets, Auckland. Telephones 675 and 698, P.O. Box 323. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Branches at Dunedin and New Plymouth. Messrs John Chambers and Son, Limited, keep at their warehouses an exceptionally large and complete stock of machinery, specialties, engineers' requisites, and of mining, dredging and general machinery. Large engineering works have been undertaken and carried out by the firm. The fine battery and plant of the Barrier Reefs, Limited, was supplied by the firm in 1900. It erected in 1897 the plant of the Kathleen Gold Mine, at a cost of £8000, and the Success and Four-in-Hand Gold Mining Companies have been similarly equipped at a cost of £13,000. Large dairying machinery has been erected by the firm in various parts of the provincial district of Auckland; indeed, the firm makes a specialty of this branch of its business. The firm's well-merited success has been achieved solely by perseverance and integrity. The firm has been in existence since 1892, and is recognised as one of the leading and most progressive firms in New Zealand, with a name respected from Auckland to the Bluff. The expansion of the business was so great that, in 1899, it was formed into a limited company, under the title of John Chambers and Son, Limited, with Mr. John Chambers as chairman, Messrs J. M. Chambers and Seymour Thorne George, directors, and Mr. W. Stanley Cooper, secretary. The company has the sole agencies in New Zealand for Tangye's Ltd. (which employs 1600 hands), Asham Brothers and Wilson, Sheffield, for Bell's Asbestos Company, Limited, London, and Babcock and Wilcox's Water Tube Boilers, etc. The specialties of the firm are requisites and machinery for mines, waterworks, dairies and creameries. It not only keeps considerable stocks, but regularly receives the Sydney and Melbourne stock sheets of Tangye's, Ltd., and can secure any machine required at the shortest notice. The firm completed and erected the pumping plant for the Devonport Borough Council's waterworks, and it constantly has contracts in hand for the erection of dairies, engines, chaff-cutting plant, etc. It is in a position to enter into contracts for the supply of machinery of every description, and will undertake to erect and complete it in any part of the colony, and hand it over in good going order. The firm has a competent staff of men to undertake engine-fitting and all kinds of machine work. Its offices and warehouse are at the corner of
Hanna, photo.Mr. J. M. Chambers.

Hanna, photo.Mr. J. M. Chambers.

page 369 Fort Street and Gore Street; the buildings are of brick and four stories in height, and the total floorage space is 32,400 square feet. The business of the firm extends over the whole colony, and, besides employing travellers, the partners themselves occasionally make business trips through the country towns and districts.