FACTORIES VISITED

Southland Times, Issue 24835, 29 August 1942, Page 4

FACTORIES VISITED

Schoolboys See Wheels Go Round Primary schoolboys who attend Y.M.C.A. classes have had an interesting time this week visiting factories in and near the city. Visits of this kind, generally arranged in the school holidays, are a regular feature of the work of the Y.M.C A. throughout New Zealand and in many other countries. The object is to make boys more familiar with the life and work of the community. The party that visited factories in the city this year consisted of about 50 boys. On Monday morning they were taken to a factory where munitions are being made, and the boys were so interested in all they saw that it was with some difficulty that they were induced to leave at lunch time. In the afternoon the boys visited the bakery •of A. C. Millars, Ltd. On Tuesday visits were paid to the factory of George Poole and Sons, Ltd., and to the museum. Wednesday was spent at Bluff, where the party was shown through the Ocean Beach freezing works and the rabbit canning factory, and on Thursday the boys journeyed to Woodlands and saw through the linen flax mill. The cordial factory of Thomsons Ltd. was visited yesterday. This factory was visited last year and the boys’ insistence on a return visit was probably not unconnected with the fact that they were allowed to sample the bottled products to an. extent that only boys can appreciate.