CONDENSED MILK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 147, 22 June 1915, Page 7

CONDENSED MILK.

NEW FACTORY AT PAUMERSTOX.

(By TclcgTapb.—frees Association.)

WELLINGTON,'this day. Under instructions from the Nestle and Anglo-Swise Milk Company, Ltd.. Mr J. M. Johnston, of Pataerston Vorth has practically completed tlie . ■ purchase of 28 acres of lam! opposite , \wapuni railway station am a site for the. erection of condenserics and a fax:- ---■ tory -Mr. Johnston states that the cost of the necessary buildings and machin- ', cry will run into £100.000. Hitherto the only condensed milk i specialists in New Zealand havo boon . "Murreys, Ltd.," the well known firm \ associated with the familiar -'Highlander" brand. "Murraya, Ltd.," is a ■ purely New Zealand firm, rim by purely I ' Now' Zealand capital, employing New I Zealand labour, and using a .purely Now J Zealand product. Their factoriea and i machinery, in value some £. r >o,<)oo, have | > ' ibeen osta'bliehcd for many years at ] , I Underwood, near Invercargill, and etn- . i ployment is piven to about on? hundred I i permanent hands. The company awns | 1 i many hundred acres of land in the couth, ami has an effertivn echeme '. whereby its married employees are! established on attractive terms in the | 1 company's houses and on the company's i allotments. Tho Swiae firm of Nestles f has been making condensed milk in i Queensland and in Victoria. Murmye, » Ltd., Jiave aUo an interest in a factory -j in QueensUuid. It is agreed tliat there j is .plenty of room in New Zealand for I the operations of tooth oompaDJes.