BOTTLES SHORT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 118, 21 May 1941, Page 9

BOTTLES SHORT

' : at*..'-.. - SHIPMENT OVERSEAS

The shipment to New Zealand troops abroad of bottled beer, aerated waters, and cordials involves such heavy withdrawals of bottles from the Dominion that the glass and bottle making industry is unable to meet requirements for certain other, clashes of bottles. It is concentrating, on. the manufacture of bottles for medicines, beer, aerated waters, .and. cordials^ and food bottles generally, and in the .circumstances it does not .expect to cope with* the ■ demand for ttoilet. bottles, for. example, for some months. Requirements in bottles for. New Zealand overseas troops are expected to involve a cost approaching £100,000 within .the next year, and, as.such bottles are. not returned there is an extra strain on the' industry. Toilet bottles of all shapes and sizes are now required.from the New Zealand industry. Manufacturers of various; products cannot, natiA obtain supplies of tin for. packing and have turned to glass, containers. Structural and plant alterations, which should increase productive capacity by at least one-third, are now in progress at Penrose, Auckland, where the glass arid bottle making industry is located. The extensions are estimated to cost between £100,000 arid £150,000. Itmay be possible to have the new plant in operation. before the end of the year, when opal pots such as 'are used, by chemists will be included in the output. ' ' .