A NOVEL DEPARTURE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11481, 14 January 1903, Page 5

A NOVEL DEPARTURE.

DEMONSTRATION OF FOOD PRO DUCTS,

There was quite a large attendance— mainly ladies —at Kincaid's G.I.C. yesterday, "where Miss McLeod, an expert on the subject of the American delicacies of the H. J. Heinz Company, ©f PitLsburei, United States, demonstrated their particular recommendations to the favour of colonial housewives. Of the fiftyseven different varieties put up by the firm, ten have been sent as a test of the colonial market. Amongst these are tomato suup, tomato chutney, Boston baked bsa,ns and tomato sauce, evaporated horse-radish, mustard dressing, sweet picklss, mince meat. In course of conversation Mr A. MaoWillie, who represents the firm, mentioned as instancing the spread of their business that he had been through the Philippine Islands, Japan, Venezuela, South America and other parts of the world. They were making a very large display at the Osaka Exhibition, to be opened in Japan on February Ist. In Canada, Germany, England and France also the products of the firm were largely in demand. The firm turns out all kinds o! pickles, preserved fruits and food products, having 22,000 acres under cultivation, with seeds supplied from their own warehouses. They have forty different salting warehouses for pickles, cucumbers, etc.. and during the summer season over 2200 hands are employed. There is connected with the estate a theatre, lunch rooms for men and women, roof gardens, choral societies, etc., and the firm >was awarded the only medal at Paris for sociology. The method of demonstrating is employed to show the quality of the goods, and is founa to work most admirably.