66 COCOA : ALL ABOUT IT. 



gelatine paper, and fixing on the top those pictorial, artistic gems 

 which are so attractive. Many others are employed ornamenting 

 and finishing, with exceedingly good taste and evident skill, the 

 different sorts of boxes required for the various goods manufactured 

 at the works. The hands have ample material at their disposal to 

 render their work effective, and every novelty likely to please the 

 public is promptly introduced. Some of the latest and most artistic 

 ornamentations well deserve a frame. 



In other rooms numerous mechanical appliances are used for 

 cutting cardboard, paper, etc., and the number of fancy boxes 

 turned out weekly is enormous. In another part of this section 

 young women are busy packing creams in boxes, and wrapping 

 Chocolate cakes in tinfoil and papers of various colours. Many 

 thousands of completely-finished boxes and packets of every descrip- 

 tion containing Chocolate creams, plain Chocolates, and in fact, 

 almost every variety of the firm's manufacture, including the 

 specialties already mentioned, are ready for packing and transit 

 to all parts of the world, to supply the home, foreign and colonial 

 markets. 



The saw-mills and wood box-making department are distinct 

 portions of the establishment, and the visitor, on entering these 

 extensive workshops, would imagine that another industry, entirely 

 removed from the manufacture of Cocoa and Chocolate, was being 

 pursued. In this building there is a buzz and whirl, caused by the 

 circular saws" by which spruce planks are reduced to the required 

 length and thickness for box-making, and most efficient planing 

 machines render the surface of the wood as smooth as o-lass. 

 The boards are transferred by a lift across the road to larger 



