SIX SONS CARRYING ON

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 590, 16 February 1929, Page 7

SIX SONS CARRYING ON

HISTORY OF “HUDSON’S” BISCUITS It is but SO years since iho Province of Otago received her first settlers, and for 00 of these years the name of "Hudson” has been associated with the manufacture of every class of firstgrade biscuits. Mr. Richard Hudson established a small biscuit factory with makeshift appliances in 1868, and after a lifetime of hard work had the satisfaction of seeing his small business grow into a very large one, and of enjoying the consciousness that his name ana tn products of his firm tvere known, and favourably known, from Auckland to the Bluff. The dominating idea of the founder of the firm was to build a business large enough to provide ample scope for each of his six sons and his ambition was to make each son capable of managing a department of the business. To this end, as soon as each of his sons finished his education he was set to work under departmental foremen to learn his trade. Before 1900 the business had twice to be moved to larger promises until finally a large and commodious building was erected in Dunedin. By this time branches had been opened in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, with agencies in all the principal towns in the Dominion- All of Mr. Hudson’s six sons were now in the business, and the original founder died in 1903. „ The six sons of the late Riohar_ Hudson are the present directors of the company and the high place occupied by Hudson’s biscuits in the business world show* clearly that they are carrying out the ideals of the founder. _ .... As occasion demanded new buildings have been added until the factory now lias a floor space of 176,000 square feet and is equipped with the most modern machinery procurable.