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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Gardiner, William and Co
Gardiner, William and Co. , Engineers, Implement Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, Kana Street, Mataura, and Ordsall Street, Gore. Bankers: Bank of New Zealand. Home Agents, Messrs James Mc-Ewan and Co., 27 Lombard Street, London, E.C. Telephone 4, Mataura; 48, Gore; P.O., Box 9, Mataura. This business, which was founded in 1862 by the late Mr. William Gardiner, who died in 1895, is now carried on by his three sons, William, Alexander, and Edward. The Mataura works are situated in a commanding position immediately opposite the Mataura suspension bridge. So successful has the business been that, though it began in a comparatively small way, it now occupies a leading position among implement factories. It has six forges worked by blasts, a five hundred weight steam hammer, turning and screw cutting lathes, boring machines, emery grinding wheels, cutting and punching machine, plate bending rolls, and mould board and share presses. The foundry is furnished with cupolas for melting iron and brass, a core drying stove, a crane and appliances for turning out light and heavy castings. The manufactures include all sorts of ploughs, for which the page 1089 foundry has a wide and high reputation; indeed, for many years past, the Messrs Gardiner's make of ploughs has, in nearly every instance, swept the board at matches where they have competed. The Messrs Gardiner are also large manufacturers of combined drills, ridgers, drays, waggons, rollers, harrows, and all sorts of agricultural machinery.