Butter put in store

Press, 27 November 1980, Page 2

Butter put in store

{PA Tauranga •; The $500,000 consignment |of unsalted butter stranded ifrom last week outside the i Auckland Farmers’ Freezing : Co-operative coolstore at Mount Maunganui has been put into the coolstore. The public relations officer of Affco, Mr R. Clarke, confirmed this from Auck-land-today. Mr Clarke said the butter had been left outside the coolstore in the hope that industrial action by freezing workers might be resolved quickly. It had not, and so company staff had put the butter in the store to try to save it, he said. The butter was transferred from the containers on Tuesday afternoon. An information officer of the Dairy Industry Information Service in Wellington, Mr Q. Golder, said he believed no check had been made as to how much damage the butter had suffered while left outside the store. “At least we have got it into the coolstore,”. he said. “It is a shame that we .could not have got it in immediately.” . Ministry of Agriculture dairy produce graders at Mount Maunganui were unavailable for comment on whether the butter was still suitable for export to Poland, its intended destination.