THE BUTTER BOXES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 589, 18 August 1909, Page 8

THE BUTTER BOXES.

-'Ainong' the various questions ■, raised during the discussion at the Egmont Box Company's meeting last week was. that .0f...th0 clanger of .fire-..' at tho' : timber; stacks. . i u ■ 151'thamj and. the suggestion was made.itliat- it. might bo' "advisable to divide! the - stack* and keep it in different '-places. The chairman roplied that'«vcry;possible, provision had been made to guard against fire,, and tho adoption 1 of the -suggestion would cijtail 'an increaso 'of expense jn securing other pieces' of land and additional carting. Another su'gfcstioni, not received seriously, was that tho. utter and cliee'se companies who were'partners : in; the concern" might;... keep,, -separate-, stocks on hand.. Jt was also suggested that _a savins jaftt&cai.]& jfii"«S bowo

of the manufacturing done at: the mills, and thus save freight on. the: waste, timber,' but it was explained that thero would be no concession in the rail freights. It was further pointed out that tho amount set down in the balaiice-sheet .did.not only represent freight, 'on timber from tho mills to the factory; but also the freight on boxes delivered to .tho various companies. A statement that a private (inn was making,a bid for the Taranaki trade was met by the reply that tho .shareholders in. the Egmerit'Box-Company were supplied at the actual cost priciy.,. .