BUTTER BOXES.
HIGH COST DISCUSSED. PROTEST TO GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Monday. The reasons for the present high cost of butter boxes was sought at a special meeting of all butter manufacturing companies in Wellington and Hawke's Bay provinces, as shareholders in the Dominion Producers' Co-opera-tive Agency, Ltd., the chairman of directors of which is Mr. S. A. Broadbelt, of Levin, who presided. Mr. Linton, district member of the Dairy Board, Mr. Brash, the secretary, and Mr. McConnon, of the Internal Marketing Department, were present. The chairman said, the subject had caused a great deal of anxiety in the past year or two. Definite action was called for. After a lengthy discussion on comparative prices, it was resolved that an emphatic protest be made to the Government against the continued increases in the price of butter boxes, which considerably reduce the return to producers and supply factories-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 31, 7 February 1939, Page 17
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