BUTTER BOXES.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 362, 17 February 1937, Page 6

BUTTER BOXES.

Necessary To Conserve White Pine Supplies. Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, Latt Night. ■“Though there are in the aggregate ample supplies of white pine for butter bores available from our indigenous forests for many years to come, the immediately available supplies in some of the more important dairying regions.' have become exhausted,’’ said Mr A. Seed, secretary of the Dominion Federated Sawmillers’ Association and th e New Zealand Boxmakers’ Association, to-day. “It is dittinctiy advisable that the remaining white pine supplies should be made to last as long as possible. No other wood in the world is so eminently suitable as our kahikatea, both for its appearance and for its non-tainting properties. For two reasons, therefore, the eking out of supplies and the eliminating of needless transport cost on thick boxes, it lids been decided by the Government that the use of the old standard type of half-inch box for butter expdrt purposes shall be discontinued after the close of the current dairying season.