CEMENT IN PAPER BAGS NOT ADVISED

Chronicle (Levin), 27 February 1947, Page 7

CEMENT IN PAPER BAGS NOT ADVISED

AUCKLAND, Feb. 26. . A suggestion by the Manawatu Mas ter Builders' Association that a request be made to liave cement bagged in paper containers as in Australia, did not meet with the general approval or builders at the annual eonference of the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contratcors' Industrial Association of Employers. Mr. W. B. Bodell said Manawatu builders who had recently reeeived shipinents of Australian cement in paper bags, found it arrived in much better condition than the localy bagged supplies. In addition paper bags were more economical and their use would save sacks which were in short supply. In Canterburv paper bags had proved most unsatisfastory, said Mr. A. Win tcrbourn, opposing the remit. Waterside workers stronglv objected to handling paper bagged cement and one large consignment tliey had liandlod had been so badlv damaged that it could not be sent to contraetors, and the Government had had to take the cement out into the eountry for its own use. He also doubted whether paper of the necessarv quality was available in New Zealaiul Mr. T. Plavfair, Auckland, said in his experience half the paper bags had arrived torn open. So much cement was lost tliat a bulider did not know with anv accuraev the weight he had The Manawatu remit was lost. reeeived.