AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS

Evening Star, Issue 21720, 15 May 1934, Page 13

AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS

It is not invidious to say that few manufacturing concerns in New Zealand have such a record of progress and accomplishment as that which can rightly he claimed by Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co.’s New Zealand Drug Company Ltd. With commodious warehouses in each of the four centres, a largo laboratory in Dunedin, and huge up-to-date fertiliser works in Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, and Dunedin, the K.P. Company, as it is popularly known, has concrete evidence to point to its expansion, while the large number of commodities which it manufactures and markets bears striking testimony to the skill and efficiency with which some of our secondary industries are conducted.

To enumerate all the products manufactured by K.P. would be wearisome to the average reader; but it will be interesting to mention some of the most popular so far as the general public is concerned. First comes that wellknown health regulator, K.P. Life Salt, of which it has been truly said that “ a little a day keeps you healthy and gay.” K.P. Life Salt, though more economical than similar preparations, is the product of health-giving fruit, and is widely used for its beneficial action in ridding the human system of impurities and waste products. Next come Kruse’s Fluid Magnesia, K.P. Cod Liver Oil Emulsion, Sulfarilla Tablets, K,P. Malt Extract, Benjamin Gum, Lancer Influenza Cure, etc. All these preparations have achieved wide-spread popularity throughout New Zealand on account of their outstanding merit, and there_ is a long list of others which also enjoy a high reputation. The ramifications of the K.P. Company, however, are such that it is impossible to_ cover all phases of its activities in this article; but the public recognises K.P. to be one of the most conspicuously successful of our secondary industries, and, as such, it commands the goodwill of all who have the welfare of our industrial supremacy at heart.