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A peep into the Laboratory, the Box-Making 

 Department, the Electric Power House, the dining- 

 rooms and dressing-rooms of this vast labom* centre 

 helps you further to realize what an enormous amount 

 of energy and enterprise have gone to the building up 

 of this great organization. 



And now in these last few minutes before we leave 

 the Refinery, these last few minutes which herald 

 the end of our whole expedition, I should like to bring 

 home to you the extent of the great revolution that 

 has been effected since the not-long-ago days when 

 Messrs. Henry Tate and Sons launched refined sugar on 

 the world's markets in the convenient form of cubes. 

 You will remember that I took you to Barbados, in 

 the West Indies, to show you a windmill, in order that 

 you might appreciate the gigantic strides which have 

 been made in the machinery of modern sugar factories. 

 Now, in imagination, come with me again to that island. 

 Here, in one of the hotels, you can see a collection of 

 the moulds in which the old-fashioned sugar-loaves 

 were formed. These copper moulds are kept brightly 

 polished — in graduated sizes they are hung in rows 

 within a framework and used as gongs, and to 

 every visitor they are' pointed out as curios, relics of 

 a bygone period which is now ancient history in the 

 sugar industry. Yet less than forty years ago those 

 moulds were serving the purpose for which they were 

 designed, " loaf " sugar was enjoying world-wide 

 popularity, and cube sugar, its famous supplanter — 

 with numerous dice-like and oblong variations of the 

 model — was unknown. 



BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTBBS, GUILDFORD 



