BUTTER BOXES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 7

BUTTER BOXES.

NEW SOUTH WALES LOOKING Tβ EUROPE; COMPLAINT ABOUT PRESENT HIGH CHARGES. COMPETHOES WITH WHITE PINE. By Telcsrauh-Presa Aes'ociatfon-CoDjrinlit. (Bee. March 1, 0.5 a.m.) Sydney, February 28. A conference of delegates'of butter faw tones has resolved to form a company, with .£50,000 capital,, for the primary object of purchasing butter boxes, or, if necessary, of manufacturing them. It was pointed out that action was necessary owing to the excessive charges that manufacturers were imposing on them. Tho chairman of the conference stated that there had been an advance I to. Is. Bd., which represented a tax of 16s. Sd. per ton. One delegate to Ue conference, who represented .75 per cent of the butter output of the State, said he had made inquiries and had found that-whila there -was ample timber in New Zealand, for several years to come, to supply all requirements-it was a question for them to dec.de whether it was wise to entirely depend on one source. While in Europe ho had made inquiry with regard to a suitable timber which was practically inexhaustible. The first shipment of these boxes would arrive in a week or two. They were made of a Polish timber.- In Northern Europe, and even in Japan there were some timbers which appeared suitable. , These auxiliary supplies, added the delegate, could be landed here at a lower rate than timber from New Zealand. [The secretary to the Minister for Agriculture of Victoria recently went to Brisbane to make inquiries on behalf of the Victorian Government into the suitability of Queensland pine for use as butter bores. .Discussing , this mission, a prominent .Queensland' timber merchant ridiculed the idea. He pointed out that several million of these butter boxes have been used in Queensland, with resnlts well known to all. Queensland pine was becoming too valuable for use for the carnage of butter; and it.was being found that it paid better to utilise it in other ways.] . . .