CANADIAN STANDARD CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1926, Page 8

CANADIAN STANDARD CASE.

BETTER FOR FRUIT EXPORT,

ADOPTED FOR DOMINION.

Experiments that have been made with the Canadian standard case for exported fruit have proved during the past season that it haa important advantages, and Mr. H. E. Napier, secretary of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation, reported to the annual conference of Auckland fruitgrowers to-day that the case had been adopted in connection with the export trade.

Explaining the change, Mr. Napier said that that case was 18in by lOlin by lliin. It was estimated that . a saving of approximately lsd a case would be possible, in adopting the Canadian standard, made up of id on the cost of the box itself, owing to less timber and consequent lower freight charges, and a further Id by the elimination of the present corrugated strawboard. Seventy-five per cent of the present cost of strawboard was because of the bulky nature of the packagp and the consequent high freight.

Canadian and American shippers used either a light plain cardboard., or box lining paper, the former being , placed at the top and bottom of the case.