IMPORTANT AMALGAMATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 April 1922, Page 5

IMPORTANT AMALGAMATION.

CONDENSED MILK FIRMS,

(By Telegraph—Special to the Star.) WELLINGTON, April 26. It tfame as a great surprise to merchants to learn that as from to-day Nestles and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk (Australasia) Ltd. would undertake the solo selling business of the New Zealand Milk Products Company, better known as the "Highlander" Milk Company. For many years past there had been keen competition in New Zealand between locally made condensed milk and the imported article. This is now a thing of the past. The Highlander Company will continue to buy milk from Southland dairy farmers and condense it. The Nestle Company will take over the manufactured article and do all the local and export trade. The Highlander condensed milk enterprise has become one of the staple industries of New Zealand and that of purely New Zealand origin. It has a large overseas trade. It began in Whangarei, North Auckland, in quite a small way, and afterwards bought out the Underwood Milk Supply Company, Invercargill, and also the plant of a small condensing concern at Sentry Hill, Taranaki. The firm of W. T. Murray, as it was then known, opened in Australia, and this business was subsequently known as the Australian Milk Products Ltd. It was purchased by the New Zealand Milk Products Ltd., which will continue to manufacture as before at Invercargill. The Wellington manager of the company, Mr R W. Viekerman, has been appointed to a similar capacity for the Nestle Company, which takes over the whole of the New Zealand distributing staff of the New Zealand Products Company.