PARIS EXHIBITION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 246, 16 October 1937, Page 5

PARIS EXHIBITION

THE NESTLE PAVILION. It will be of interest to New Zealanders to learn that the merits of a number of products which are enjoying the confidence of their own households, are being extolled with dazzling splendour at the world-famed International Exhibition now in full swing in Paris. Prominent amongst these exhibitions is the Nestle Pavilion, which the renowned French weekly L’Hlustration recently praised in glowing terms. The article gave statistics and indicated that there is no civilised country where the Nestle selling organisation is not established, nor an important milk producing area without its Nestle factory. Illustrated in figures, there are 121 of these factories, employing 21,000 people, dealing with milk from 250,000 cows and supplying the consumer with more than 500,000 tins of condensed milk. These are the latest statistics.

L’Hlustration sums up by saying that the Nestle Pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition represents nearly three-quarters of a century of patient and conscientious work of a great enterprise. It also worthily crowns their achievements. Perhaps the most notable achievement, as indicated by this great French weekly, is the fact that, wherever Nestle products are found infant mortality is decreasing. Hundreds of nurses sent out in the far corners of the world to give useful advice on baby problems; the spreading of the knowledge of hygiene in primitive regions —which services to emphasise the importance of the work that is being ca’.iied oat and raises their efforts above ordinary business consideration to the level of those who have made great contributions to the general well-being of all nations.