CARGO PILFERING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 49, 5 March 1946, Page 5

CARGO PILFERING

MISSING CASES OF BUTTER NO LOSSES WHAKATANE END In conversation with Mr R. E. Blair, Secretary-Manager of the Rangitaiki Dairy Company’s Joss of fourteen cases of butter in recent shipments from Whakatane, we understand that our recent report infers that the losses may have been locally. This is not the case and we print the position as outlined to us.

The article suggested that the butter was lost between the butter factory cool store and the Freezing Company’s Stores in Auckland. Actually the butter has been lost after being loaded at Whakatane on to the Northern Company’s boats. The normal practice is that if MOO boxes are shipped, the butter is tallied first at the factory cool store, again at the Whakatane wharf cool store, and once again when it is loaded on the ship. In every case a clean receipt has been given by the Shipping Company for the exact number of boxes loaded out from the factory at Edgecumbe. .........

It will be clear from the above that the Company’s drivers have had absolutely no association with the losses reported, and we make haste to assure them that any such inference was neither intended nor insinuated in our first report.