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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Chemical Stores Company

Chemical Stores Company (Walter Taine, Manager), Manufacturers of Varnishes, Lacquers, Japans, etc., Antifriction, and all kinds of Greases, Crawford Street, Dunedin. Telephone, 127. P.O. Box, 170. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand, Limited. The large and growing business of the Chemical Stores Company was established by the present manager in Bond Street in 1890. Though commencing in a comparatively small way, the business of the company expanded rapidly till January, 1897, when a fire totally destroyed the premises and stock. Mr. Taine then secured a Harbour Board leasehold, and tenders were let for the construction of the building, of which a front view is given in the illustration. This building is of brick, and two stories in height. Though the original floorage space was large, the manager soon found himself obliged to erect additional accommodation, and the chimney stack was made nearly twice the original size. On the ground floor front, facing Crawford Street, the company has its public and private offices; the factory and laboratory are at the rear, and the case making and packing department is on the second floor. A large gas engine drives the crushing and other machinery engaged in the manufacturing department. The manager is assisted by experts; eight persons are employed in the preparation of the various lines compounded at the works; and products of the company's factory find a ready market in all parts of New Zealand, two travellers being continually engaged in the sale of the company's manufactures. This company's brand of varnishes is known as “Ironclad,” which appears on every package produced or packed by the company. Many varieties of varnishes are made for coach and house painters, as well as japanners. The coach varnishes include the finest finishing body, hard carriage or flatting, waggon, black enamel, black japan, gold size, and agricultural implement varnishes. The varieties for decorators, cabinet makers, and house painters, include finest French oil, white marble, pale maple copal, finest oak, hard church oak, gold size, black japan, Berlin black, terebine, white and brown hard spirit, brush polish turpentine varnish, and best stains in oaks, maple, mahogany, cedar, and walnut. Japanners' varnishes include gold size, best black Pontipool, Berlin black stoving, fine pale polishing stoving, and best mixing kinds. Several varieties of paint oils are put up by the company, and special preparations for oiling cylinders and valves, and also general lubricating oils, of both the pale and dark varieties. The Oils comprise engine oil, extra refined, and an axle oil for colliery trucks, and railway cars and waggons; the pale oils being specially adapted for gas engines, agricultural, dairy, and other machinery. The company's antifriction greases specially prepared for the axles of locomotives, carriages, trains, waggons, or dairy
Chemical Stores Company's Premises.

Chemical Stores Company's Premises.

page 347 machinery, comprise the best steam-refined engine tallow, and best yellow and black antifriction greases. Sundries set forth in the company's catalogue include sheep branding oil—red, blue, or black,—resin, Stockholm tar, soft soap, coal tar, carbolic powder, and phenyle (liquid) disinfection. An expert in varnish and antifriction grease manufacture is one of the special members of the company's staff. The Chemical Stores Company claims to hold the largest stock of aniline dyes in New Zealand, comprising dyes for leather, wool, cloth, confections, and all other purposes.