M'LEOD BROS., LTD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21019, 7 May 1930, Page 22

M'LEOD BROS., LTD.

M Leod Bros., Ltd., are the oldest established soap and candle manufacturers in h>ew Zealand, and the year before last the company celebrated the conclusion of 60 years of operations, . The business of the company is now conducted on a wide scale, and not only are the finished articles , prepared for the market, but the company controls its own subsidiary industries for the protection of some of its raw materials. The very latest plant is installed for the production of the well-known lines of Laundrine and Victory bar soaps, and all the first grade toilet soaps, such as Pure Castile, Magnet. Bath, etc. The demand for these trade brands of soaps is increasing year by year, and every housewife knows the value of a bar of either Laundrine or Victory soap, which is the best quality obtainable in New Zealand, and which produces excellent results in the laundry. In the toilet soaps, although overseas competition is extremely keen, the public is using the firm’s brands .of Treble Milled soaps in increasing quantities. In the production of the toilet soaps the largest five-roll mills and the very latest plodders and automatic stamping machines are used to secure the highest grade article. The same may be said of other departments embracing the production of Victory washing powders and Victory sand soap, for which only the best materials are used. . Although the consumption of candles is steadily declining the output is still considerable, and M‘Leod Bros.’s brand of Ducal wax candles is very popular on the local market. The making of the cardboard boxes and the printing for the above industries are all due in Dunedin, and the whole of the. wooden cases required are produced in the firm’s own box factory, and made from New Zealand softwood ■ tim- • bers. Here again, the very latest plant has been installed, and cases are turned out rapidly by the use of automatic nailmachines. Besides making cases for their own requirements M'Leod Bros, produce large quantities for numerous other manufacturers in the city, and very large stocks of white pine and pinus insignis timbers are kept stacked in their Dunedin timber N yards to ensure a constant supply of dry timber for the making of soap cases.