A MODEL FACTORY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10260, 2 December 1926, Page 6

A MODEL FACTORY

FEDERAL PREMIER. VISITS BOURNEVILLE.

GIRLS RELUCTANT TO LEAVE WORK FOR MARRIAGE.

MR BRUCE’S TRIBUTES TO “PATTERN OF CLEANLINESS.

OTHER BIRMINGHAM WORKS VISITED.

LONDON, Nov. 30. Favored bv a sunny but cold day, Mr and Mrs. Bruce, accompanied by the Lady Mayoress of 'Birmingham, visited Cadbury’s works at Bourneville and saw 10,000 employees carrying out every process of manufacture. Everyone was impressed with tlie lofty rooms and excellent well a re, recreation and bathing, provisions, especially the great dining hall, in which" 5000 are accommodated, and continuation schools, where working girls are taught three and a-half da ye a’'week in their work hours. .Mr. and Mrs. Bruce remarked on the cheeriness of' the employees, and were not surprised to learn that the girls were most reluctant to forsake the opportunities of games and companionship for the comparative loneliness of matrimony. It was learned that the Cadbury girls marry three years later than the average Birmingham girl. ' After a tour of the Bourne ville modern housing area, the visitors were the guests of the directors at a luncheon, at which Air. Bruce said he would like to see all industries conducted on similarly perfect conditions. After seeing this pattern of cleanliness, the party went' to quite the reverse, John Wright‘and Eagle Co. s gas-fire and gas-oven works. . Air. Bruce was photographed making a casting among a group of grimy workmen, who cheered him for not spilling a drop of molten metal. s Later. Air. Bruce made a hurried visit to the Electric Co.’s works, where, he was also photographed before a huge motor turbine destined for Broken Hill. To-iiiglit he will be the chief guest at the Chamber of Commerce dinner. —A. and N.Z.C.A.