BOTTLES SHORT

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1941, Page 10

BOTTLES SHORT

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 m unable io meet requirements for certain other classes of bottles. It is concentrating on the manufacture of bottles tor medicines, beer, aerated waters, and cordials, and food bottles generally, and in the circumstances it does not expect to cope with the demand for toilet bottles, for example, for some months. Requirements in bottles tor New Zealand overseas troops are expected to involve a cost approaching £lOO,OOO within the next year, and, as such bottles are not returned there is an extra strain on the industry. Toilet bottles of all classes and sizes are now required from the New Zealand ■ industry. Manufacturers of various products cannot now 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 bottle making industry is located. The cxt Visions are estimated to cost between £lOO.OOO and £150.000. It may be possible to have the new piant in operation before the end of the year, when opal pots such as are used by chemists will be included in the output.