LANE'S EMULSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 217, 13 March 1914, Page 2

LANE'S EMULSION

Of the less ambitious industries that tend by the excellence of their products to advertise Oamaru in the Australian markets none has progressed more rapidly or with more soundly based prosperity than that carried on in Mr. Lane's compact factory in Harbor street. j Very different is the present complete plant from that first installed in 1899 at the back of Mr. Lane's old shop in Tees street, near the English Church, when four very small churns and a 1% h.p. engine turned out 1495 small bottles for a year's work! A growing demand for the emulsion, however, caused additions to the original plant, and in 1907 the business wag removed to the present site in Harbor street, where ,it was connected with '(eight large churns. The output for last year from these, working at full capacity, was, besides 42,648 small bottles, "21,240 large | bottles, a thing undreamt of when the ! business was commenced. These figures, while double those of the preceding year, will be eclipsed by those for 1914, I for Mr. Lane has installed a further I eight churns, and docs not think the , supply thus obtained will quite fill the j demand. j The ingredients of Lane's Emulsion j are no secret, but may be read by the j purchaser upon the wrapper of each (package, so that the virtue of the nutritive tonic is not derived from the use of secret drugs, so frcqently harmful, but from the pureness of its constituents, and the proportions in which they are scientifically incorporated in a true spacious, yet fully occupied by a growing business, Mr. Lane's works are most instructive and interesting. The mixing room claims attention on entry. Here are seen two seta of eight chums each, driven by overhead shafting and belting from a five h.p. gas engine. The churns are connected 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 bottles of the emulsion. Over the line of churns runs a railway with pulleys and hooks by means of which the taps of cans containing the bulkier ingredients arc readily adjusted to the churns. A working supply of hypophoßpliates of lime ami soda, etc., is shelved in the mixing room, while tanks 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 bubbles to escape from the churned, emulsion. A day's "make" is now 3200 Boz bottles, or 1600 IGoz bottles. From the churns the emulsion is filtered through butter I 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 bolls have worked to the surface. The bottles nre 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 small and two dozen large bottles. In the store-room may be seen a pile of barrels of the purest codliver 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's factory, in which many small devices for I the saving of time and labor are sinparent.—Oamaru Mail,