TOO MANY BUTTER BOXES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 355, 9 February 1937, Page 6

TOO MANY BUTTER BOXES

NEW REGULATIONS. | REDUCTION TO TWO. i Minister Announces Details Of New Plan. • Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, Last Night. i The Minister of Agriculture, the ! Hon. W. Lee Martin, announced today that he had approved of the drafting of a regulation which would amend the Dairy Produce General Regulations to the effect that, beginning- on August 1 next, the “sandard” type of butter box would be deleted and “sub-standard” and “saranac” left as the types which may thereafter be used as containers for butter for export. “It has been considered that for

some time there have been too many types - of butter boxes,” the Minister said. “The difficulties of obtaining adequate supplies during the current and the preceding season have made this position more manifest. “The reduction of the number of types to two by the abandoning of the ‘standard’ box offers a number of advantages among which are the saving of a large quantity of white pine timber annually and the simplification of the position nf sawmillers and box makers as regards the thickness of boards for use in box-making for next season’s boxes. Only two thicknesses will have to be ordered, instead of three for the current season. Another advantage will be the reduction in the percentage of broken boxes, for the standard box. being unwired, is more prone to damage than the wired containers.”