BUTTER BOXES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 327, 1 March 1910, Page 5

BUTTER BOXES

AUSTRALIA IMPORTS FROM EUROPE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received ], 12.5 a.m. Sydney, February '2B. A conference of delegates from butter factories resolved to form a company with £JO.OOU capital with the primary object ot purchasing butter ■boxes, or, if necessary, manufacturing tliem. It was pointed out that this ac.tion was necessary owing to the exees- ' sjve charges that manufacturers were imposing on them. The chairman .stated that the advance to Is 8d reju i -Tsented a tax of 16s ftd per ton. One •delegate to the conference represented 75 per cent, of the butter output of the •'State. He had made enquiries and found that while there was ample tirn•ber in New Zealand for several years (to come to supply all requirements, it •was a question for fiiem to decide whether it was wise to entirely depend on -one source. While in Europe he lud made enquiries with regard to suitable ; timber, which was practically inexhaustible. The first shipment of these boxes would arrive in a week or two. They were of Polish tijnber. In North■ern Europe, and even in Japan, weve .some timbers which appeared suitable. These auxiliary supplies could be land,ed here at a lower rate than from New