PREMIER’S ENGLISH TOUR

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1926, Page 11

PREMIER’S ENGLISH TOUR

VISIT TO BOUIRNVILLE. MODEL WORK'S INSPECTED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 30. Favoured with a sunny but cold day, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, accompanied by the lady mayoress of Birmingham, visited Cadbury’s works at Bournville and eaw 10,009 employees carrying out every process of manufacture. Every one was impressed with the lofty rooms and the excellent welfare, recreation, and bathing provisions, especially the chief dining hall in which 5000 are accommodated. In the continuation schools work girls are taught three and a-half days a week in work hours. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce remarked on the cheeriness of the employees and were not surprised to learn that the girls were most reluctant to forsake the opportunities of games and companionship for the comparative loneliness of matrimony. It was learned that the Cadbury girls marry three years later than the average in Birmingham. After a tour of the Bournville model housing area the visitors -were the guests of the directors at a lunch, at which Mr. Bruce said he would like to see all industries conducted in similarly perfect conditions. After seeing this pattern of cleanliness, the party went to quite the reverse, the John Wright and Eagle Company’s gas-fire and gas-oven works. Air. Bruce was photographed making a casting amongst a group of grimy workmen, who cheered him for not spilling a drop of the molten metal. Later Mr. Bruce made a hurried visit to the Electric Company’s works, where he was also photographed before a huge motor turbine destined for Broken Hill. To-night he will be. the chief guest at a Chamber of Commerce dinner, AIR. COATES AT SHEFFIELD. London, Nov. 30. Mr. Coates spent a busy day at Sheffield. He visited Brown and Bayley’s steel works, Hadfields’, EdgarAllen’s and Vickers. He saw railway wheels and guns manufactured. He was a guest at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon and then visited the cutlery works. He received the freedom of the city and was precented with a beautiful cabinet of cutlery.