Hogg's Steam Confectionery, Biscuit Manufactory, and Bakery

Are in the Avenue, and consist of engine and boiler house, fitted with one of Murray's horizontal engine and 10-h.p. boiler. The stoic room is capacious, and contains on the average, twenty tons of flour, and is iron lined. The next room contains the biscuit machines, driven by steam power. There are four of these machines—the mixer, from which the dough passes to the next machine, called a break roller, and from thence to the cutting machine, which delivers the biscuit ready for the oven. The break roller has three deliveries; near these are twenty-four different kinds of dies, or moulds for biscuits. The corner opposite the oven contains a copper boiler, and a long stone table divided by stiff iron ribs, is covered by hot sugar being passed from table to table, and finally, after passing through a machine, coming out in the various kinds of lollies so dear to the colonial child; nothing can be cleaner than everything about the place. In another part of the room are buns emerging from the oven, and tins of various shapes, contain tarts and pies, and even a wedding cake ready for its coat of iceing. All round the shelves are ranged a goodly stock of lollies in tins, and biscuits of all descriptions, shewing that Mr. Hogg's business has a wider range than the town of Wanganui.