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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
Waddell, McLeod and Weir
Waddell, McLeod and Weir (Willian Arthur Waddell, Archibald McLeod, and William Weir), Timber Mer chants City Planing and Moulding Mills: Office, Waring Taylor Street; Mill, Johnston, Featherston, and Waring Taylor Streets. Telephone 83; Bankers, Bank of Australasia. This large business was established in 1873, and has been conducted by the proprietors ever since that date. The site occupied by the mill is central and within one hundred and fifty to two hundred yards of the Post-office and Queen's Wharf. The sections, of which there are a good many, have large frontages to the three streets named above, and, together with the buildings, give a total floorage space, including yards, of about 50,000 superficial feet. The mill building is a substantial structure of wood, two stories in height. The engine-house, which contains a steam-engine of twenty-five horse-power, is built of brick. The mill is supplied with all the latest styles of machincry for sawing, planing, and moulding as required. The firm manufacture sashes, doors, and all kinds of joinery work for builders. They import some kinds of timber and a good deal of glass in connection with their trade. They employ on the average from 25 to 30 hands. Their trade is shiefly local, but they export to supply orders from other ports. There is always a very large stock of thoroughly seasoned timber on hand.