SOAP MAKING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 19

SOAP MAKING

A PROGRESSIVE AND IMPORTANT INDUSTRY OVER 100 EMPLOYED BY M‘LEOD BROS., LTD. Established some 64 years ago, Messrs M'Leod Bros., Ltd., Dunedin, is not only the oldest firm of soap manufacturers in New Zealand, but it has grown to be one of the most progressive and important industries in the Dominion, and today its ramifications are wide and numerous. The firm’s rapid, advancement is a | great tribute to what local capital, allied with modern methods and skilled New Zealand workers, can accomplish. If ever any industry deserved the support of New Zealand householders, a better example than M'Leod Bros, would be difficult to find. Included in the wide range of soaps manufactured by this progressive firm are the two great household favourites, Laundrine and Victory bar soaps. These two popular brands, which are distinguished by their bright • golden colour, comply fully with the Government regulations for purity, while their lathering properties are known to most housewives who desire spotless washing with the minimum of labour. Another distinctive feature of Laundrine and Victory soaps is their lasting and economical properties. In the manufacture of toilet soaps, M'Leod Bros., Ltd,, have also achieved prominence, and here again their prof ducts are being used in homes all over New Zealand. M'Leod Bros.’. Pure Castile, Magnet Bath, Magnet Barilla, Verona and Fortuna toilet boxes are perhaps the best known of a most impressive variety of choice toilet soaps of the highest quality and purity. Other lines manufactured are Victory Soap Powder, Victory Sandsoap, Karpo! Carbolic Soap, and Ducal Candles. While the products mentioned are well known throughout the Dominion, it- may not be so well known that M'Leod Bros., Ltd., have extended into the box-making industry, and carry large, stocks of white pine and pinus insignus, which are produced at their own sawmills in Otaeo and Southland. M'Leod Bros, also own by-products works at Burnside and Timaru, and are large users of timber, coal, and electric power. The publication of these facts, it is hoped, will acquaint the public of Otago ‘ and Southland not only with the excellence of the soaps manufactured by M'Leod Bros., Ltd., but also with the wide range of the firm’s operations, and the benefit such an industry is to the country. When firms such as this arc kept busy by the public’s demand for their • goods, large numbers of workers are engaged, substantial sums are, paid in wages, and the prosperity ■ 11 the province is greatly accelerated.