COCOANUT OIL FACTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 5 May 1923, Page 12

COCOANUT OIL FACTORY.

KIGH COMMISSIONER'S VISIT. HEAVY WORK OF KXHIBITIOX COMJIITTEE. (By Our Special Correspondent.) LOXDOX, March 22. The Higli Commissioner paid a visit to Messrs. Jurgens' oil refining works hi Holland at. their invitation following on his visit to their Essex margarine factory, which for the butter content of its' main prothiee "Marg"' relics entirely on New Zealand butter—as described in a previous article.

Ti.e Kssex factor} - is self-contained in every WflV except the refining of the various oils employed. That process is carried on in the factory in Holland, where it has a technical staff of the first order, which in addition to its day to clay problem- of an industry enpaged in food production, does extensive research into those biochemical problems on vhiclt success of such production depend*

Pir .Fames Allen wns naturally moat 'ntereated in the various processes nnderponc by copra and from what he saw tlierp is convinced that the quality of the copra produced in T--araoa could b* greatly improved were the results of such scientific research and method as is to be seen in this refinery more generally known. It is liy the -.york of the laboratory there that it has Seen found possible to proriufp from tli~ cocoanut an oil in solidified form w licli is at once aT>«ollltely purr- and deodorised. It is by fliei- invesfi"at : jns that cocoanut oil lias Wen ma' , - available for use p.s food because of their success in deodorising it and reninv'r.? the "wrul'nr porid flfivour which so long liaffled ths biochemist. Due other result of the success in obtainincr this solidified cocoanut oil is that in hot countries s"eh ,*«t r*n bo better handled because it will not get soft and liquefy.

The High Commissioner, who was appointed as rep rrt s n - 1 tnt""*e. nf pl tH<» T7nminions in the British Empire Exhibition, is now findinc; that his time, already overloaded by. the work of various oversea committees and organisations, has now become infinitely more preoccupied.

There is a mass of extra work entailed by his position on the Exhibition Committee, which falls heavily not only on Pir James, hut also on the staff of New Zealand House. The Hieh Commissioner goes on Tuesday to Paris, where he is to sign the Air Convention on behalf of the Dominion.