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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Colonial Sugar Refining Company

Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd. This company's works are situated at Chelsea, with deep water frontage to the harbour, about two miles above the Queen Street wharf, and are owned by a company of Auckland capitalists, working in co-operation with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, of Sydney. The extensive original refinery page 415 was erected in 1883, and has been added to from time to time. The company has two fine wharves where large steamers may load and discharge, and numerous cottages for the accommodation of its workers. A large proportion of the sugar used in the Colony is manufactured at the works. When the industry was established, the output was 360 tons per week; now it is nearly 700 tons. Two hundred hands are constantly employed; Mr. W. J. W. Philson is manager in New Zealand, and Mr. E. V. Millar, manager of the works.