IMPORTANT AMALGAMATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1922, Page 7

IMPORTANT AMALGAMATION.

CONDENSED MILK FIRMS. It came as a great surprise to merchants to learn that Nestle and the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk (Australasia), Ltd., would undertake the sole selling business of New Zealand milk products of the company better known as the Highlander Milk Company. For many years past there had been keen competition in New Zealand between locally-made condensed milk and the imported article. This is now a thing of the past. The Highlander Company will continue to buy milk from the Southland dairy farmers and condense it. Nestle and Company will take over the manufactured article, and do all the local export trade. The Highlander condensed milk enterprise has become one of the staple industries of New Zealand, and that of purely New Zealand origin. It has a large overseas trade. It began in Whangarei, North Auckland, in quite a small way, and afterwards bought out the Underwood Milk Supply Company, of Invercargill, and also the, plant of a small condensing concern at Sentry Hill, Taranaki. The firm of W. ,T. Murray, as it was then known, openled in Australia, and this business was I subsequently known as Australian Milk I Products, Ltd. It was purchased by the New Zealand Milk Products, Ltd., which will continue to manufacture as before at Invercargill. The Wellington manager of the company, Mr. F.' W. Vickerman, has been appointed to a similar capacity for Nestle and Company, which takes over the whole of the New Zealand distributing staff of the New Zealand Products Company.