COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE.

NEW CbNDENSED liILK FAdTORY. " Tlie Nestle and Anglo-Sw-iiss " <3oh-* dens'ed Milk Company 'has purchased a property over thirty acres m the > yictnity oo r ? Palmerston - '•North.,- and thereoriisi tp b&^edtqd " an: - yektensive factory for' the production'of the wellknown Nestle Condensed' Milk. 'm all ( probability? but for tlie war the 'buildbrigs':wo<^^*ihWdy- hay beerk up and thei, indti^t^jN m afctive operation. . Still*, even' ait* this critical' time,* the initial step m cohstruidfcibir'h'as been taken.; A cable received from. Lbndoi\ early?; this ; h^ohfeh^direfcfcfed that two artesiah wells;' capable of at 'least 500,000 ggarl r loiis -of water 1 daffly;? straightway 'should jbe sunk. This :wdl*k,* therefore', W- not only alrf&dy m hand' but it 'can'be*expected 'that' 1 imin4diiat6ly'''the war • is over further- and rapid -progress 1 will at once* be 1 'made. "'. It is encouraging to find people l ' ; 3ifce- Nestles - i di&playihg' • such ' confidence iii New Zealand that they ax*e -*eady. to make so substantial and permanent an investment ■•. as this' fac-< tdiryv mafchineiy l , :' and -.-. appKan'qes v-repre-sejit.;.' Not only, .will Palmerston North £rnriarily • 'benefit, *, but '■;, the -whole Doiinion. 'is advanced .< ■'" 1 when . important manufacturing (like' this;' "conies .about. Then, what has yWtherto bcen>tfih 'importatioriyvis "converted : into a-* loc&l- in-' duritry of* potential character. -In Aus- - tTalia already there are two. extensive Nestle Condensed-Milk -factories— one m Victoria* 'tbe^other -in t Queensland. ;<.