BUTTER AND CHEESE BOXES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 107, 13 August 1910, Page 6

BUTTER AND CHEESE BOXES

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Egmont Box Cp., held at Eltham this week, Mr. Marx said that during the year just ended 2L1',548 Gutter boxes, consuming 1,337,532 feet of timber (which worked out at 6.322 feet p»r box) and 150,678 cheese cases, consuming 1,450,418 feet of timber (9.625 feet per case) had been made by the company. The cost of timber for the butter boxes was £lO,577, and the cost of cheese cases £9417. The net return, on the prices charged, I was 13s per 100 feet of timber, for the • timber used in the manufacture of cheese I crates and 15s 8d per 100 feet for butter j boxes.-

Mr. T. 0. Hodgson considered that there should be a readjustment of prices. It was not fair to the butter-makers that they.should be charged 2s 8d per 100 feet more than wag chaTged to the cheese-making factories. I Mt. Herlihy eoncurred with this view. In reply Mr. Marx said that the company had to make a cut in the prices of cheese crates, owing to the cut prices being offered iby ; a proprietary firmThere was no doulbt that the increased output of the company, which was brought about by the manufacture of cheese crates, had also been of great benefit to the butter-making factories. It was necessary that there should be a little give and take on both sides at times. During the coming year there would be; a considerable saving of freight on cheese cases —as the company intended cutting the battens for cheese at the Ohutu mill. This saving would probably more than make up the differ-; ence on the present cost. J