LANE'S EMULSION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 72, 16 March 1914, Page 3

LANE'S EMULSION.

Of the less ambitious industries that tend by the excellenco of their products to advertise Oamaru in the Australasian markets nono lias progrossed more rapidly or with more soundly based prosperity than that carried on in Mr Lane's compact factory m Harbor Street. Very different is the present complete plant from that first installed in 1899 at the backet Mr Lane's old shop in Tees street, near the English Church, when four very small churns and a If hp engine turned out 1495 small bottles for a year's work! A growing demand tor the emusion, however, caused adVonTli ° P*:9fyM*l #«& and in UU7 the business was removed to the present site in Harbdr '.street, whore it was commenced with eHit large churns. The. output for last year from these, working at full cap- , bosides smn " tles, 21,240 large bottles, a thine undreamt of when the business was com menced These figures, while double tnosG of the preceding year, w jif. {,„ eclipsed by those for 1914,. for Mr Lane has installed a further ejghfe churns and does not think the supply thus, obtained will quite fill the demand. •• , ■ . ''■■

.file ingredients', of Lane's Emulsion are no secret, but may be read »y the purchaser. upon the wrapper of each package) so- that the virtue of this nutritive' tonic is not derived from the use of 'seci'ot drugs, so frequently harmful, but from the purenew oi its -constituents, and the proportions in which they are scientiw* y,! ,lcor Porated in a true emulsion * r 11' hme - was »hed and spacious, yet fully occupied by a growing business, Mr Lane's works are most instructive and' interesting. The mixing room claims attention oh entry. Here fire seen two sets of eight churns each, driven by overhead shaft and belting from a five h.p. gas engine, the churns are connocted in couples, the emulsion having, at one stage of its preparation, ;the density of butter; and needing the full power of the engine. Each churn holds 200 hot-' ties of the emulsion. Over the line of churns runs a railway with pullevs and hooks by means of which the taps of cans containing the bulkier ingredients are readily adjusted to the churns. A working supply of hypophosphates of lime arid soda, beechwood creasote, etc., is shelved in the mixing room, while flanks at a convenient level contain filtered water and cod-liver oil. A bi-weekly make is the rule, as some time is needed to allow air bubbles to escape from the churned emulsion. A day's "make" is now 3200 Boz bottles, or 1600 16oz bottles. From the churns the emulsion is filtered ' through butter cloth into a tank, from which it is bottled, an ingenious pulley and treadle attachment to the tap effecting a considerable saving of time in this operation. Tables holding a day's make stand in the packing room. Here the bottled "make" is allowed to stand until all air bells have worked to the surface. The bottles are then filled to the necessary level and corked, placed with a protecting jacket on the familiar cartons, and packed in cases which hold three dozen sma.\l' and two dozen largo bottles. Tn the storeroom may be seen a pile of barrels of tho purest cod-liver oil, a shipment of which is received annually from Norway, and a stack of bottles awaiting filling, which gives some indication of the quantity of emulsion manufactured by Mr Lane. An up-to-date office, lavatory, and bottle-wash-ing department complete the'appointments of Mr Lane's factory, in which many small devices for the saving of time and labor are apparent.—"Oamaru Mail."