SWEDISH BUTTER BOXES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 24 March 1925, Page 10

SWEDISH BUTTER BOXES

STATEMENT BY DAIRY PRODUCE BOARD. Referring to the use of Swedish butter boxes, the chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board makes tho following statement: — "Contrary to statements made and opinions expressed in some quarters, the Dairy Produce Board is not r(>onsible for the importation of Swedish butter boxes. The overseas delegation, when in London, received a cablegram from tne board asking it to investigate the position as to price .and the probable extent of supply. Thinking that this tion in itself would be of 110 . unmediately practical value to the industry, the "delegates made arrangements with, one of the largest mills for the board to have the disposition of their agency in New Zealand' if the board thought it desirable that any action should ba taken. The delegation fully understood that it was outside the scope, of tae board’s charter to arrange for importation. When this matter came duly before the board in January it-was found that dairy associations, and P rlvate ?“* terprises were energetically dairy-companies regarding Swedish boxes, agencies for which they had Ja 1 * 11 , u Pr The board therefore concluded that It was unnecessary to do anything - ing the establishment of a further agency and notified the Swedish c *- pany concerned to this offset, fusions that have been drawn Swedish boxes and. Australian butter prices are amusing, in '’lew of the act that up to the present only smajl quan titles have been used by a fee panics for experimental Purkses Th. official report regarding.their suitabihty is that no odour or taint could. b tected in the butter after it had been stored in ths manner usual with our ex port produce. Dairy companres will themselves judge of the relatne advan tages and disadvantages attendant upon their use.”

Mr. H. Ernest Leighton reports a most successful clearance sale of poultry and plant, held by him at Mr. Pearce s,, rose Street, Lower Hutt, on Saturday last. There was a very large «ttendanco of buyers, and the poultry, was competed for, everything being 6 °U ] ’Y* der the hammer. Wh rte JS n»’ 14s. 6d. per head each, 13s. 6d. and 11*. small ones; Black Orpuigtons, 1 • per head each, to 135.; White Rocks, Ils. per head each; young hens, ss. 6<L tl piece, down to 2s. 9d.; Is. 9d. for old heus. .