EGMONT BOX COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1920, Page 5

EGMONT BOX COMPANY.

MACHINERY DBOtAKID "BLAOK." A branding machine is now on its way to Eltharo,'from the Ohutu mill, and approximately 700,000 feet of dry timber 1 stacked there will also have to be removed to Eltlmm should the strike prove of }gng duration.. The amount of work involved may be better imagined when it is jaaligsd that if tijp'strike continues th,e local mill will have r to deal with practically all the requirements of the dairying industry_ throughout Taranaki. There has been some delay during the past fortnight, and some factories are in urgent need of cheese crates and butter boxes, hut the company's secretary (Mr. N. E. Drayton) informed an Argus representative today that the shortage would be gradually overcome, and that the local factory would be able to cope with all the work coming to hand. At mid-day yesterday the secretary of the Egmont Box Company (Mr. $. E. Drayton) received information from the. manager at Ohutu (Mr. McGlashan) to the effect ■ that the branding machine and three trucks of dry timber were despatched to Eltliam yesterday.

The foreman of the Ohutu mill (Mr. Asliton) lias also received the following wire from the secretary of the King Country Sawmillers and Timberworkers' Union (Mr. Devereau, of Tauinarmnii):—"The branding machine and all crates will bo declared 'black' if the machine is moved from Ohutu."

This union, of which Mr. Devereau is secretary, ia not a registered union, and it is therefore difficult to see from whence it obtains the power of authority to declare anything "black." It would appear that Mr. Devereau is endeavoring to put up a most preposterous piece of bluff, says the local Argus.