PILLAGING HABIT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1945, Page 7

PILLAGING HABIT

SHORTAGE OF PACKAGING

The difficulty of getting suitable packing lor merchandise in order to discourage pillaging, was mentioned at the last meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, when photographs of pillaged packages were ret' ebld m a shipping company and

Mr. W. I. Cunninghame said it was a damning indictment when a man's honesty was gauged by the strength oi a package. In the circumstances they would have to use wooden cases to ship goods, but there was a catch iii that, too. He had occasion to ship a small article, worth about £5 10s, and it cost 30s to provide the case. The president (Mr. S. W. Peterson) said that the safety of the goods depended on the nature of the package, whether it was cardboard or steel. Merchants and manufacturers had great difficulty in obtaining suitable packaging material.

Mr. H. "P. Wrigley said that in Sydney £8000 worth 'of cotton goods, weighing four tons, was recently pillaged.

"Our problem here is to find something suitable in which to pack our goods," said Mr. Frank Wilson, "but the fact remains that there is a great deal more loss through pillage than (here should be."