IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16267, 18 July 1918, Page 8

IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES

Considerable enterprise is bbing ex- ■* hibited during the war in Allied conn- - tries, and the expansion that is'taking place in Borne departments of oom-' nierce is remarkable. An Australian - newspaper has reference to tho fact ' that tho Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Con- : t densfcd Milk Co. in August next* embaik upon the erection of a chocolaw : ■ factory that will entail a total outliv - of about £300,000. i •The extensive building, machinery, ; < and equipment are to be placed upon - a - tweuty-live-acro site on the banks of the Parramatta river at Abbotsford' near Sydney. This estate previously, constituted the home and grounds of Sir Arthur Ren wick. •! Another important disbursement la being made by the same firm at Dennington,, Warrnambool, Victoria I ,' where - exists what is probably the biggest condensed milk factory in the world.-There they are building a dining-hall for the accommodation of employees, at a cost "■ of no less than £20,000. A similar refectonr is to be established at Ab« botsfora. The scheme is to provide f hot. nourishing meals at midday. Thore will be no obligation upon an employee to purchase, but no profits are to be N made, and the food will be issued at cost price. Recreation rooms will also be erected. The new chocolate factory will give employment to 700 people. It is teresting to learn, moreover, that not * only will the boilers. costing from 1 £15,000 to £20,000, be made in traha, but that the refrigerating plant ' entailing an outlay of another £23,000 Vwill be constructed there too. Oeriainli ' colonial manufactures are rapidly torn . ing on, and are now, indeed, attainim a dimension of much magnitude.