VACUUM PACKING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21702, 18 January 1934, Page 10

VACUUM PACKING

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

UNSALTED PARCEL PRAISED

LONDON EXPERTS IMPRESSED LONDON. Jan. 16 A parcel of unsalted butter from Palmerston North carried in a vacuum in tin cases has arrived in splendid condition. Several exports who inspected the consignment were highly impressed. Ono described the butter as being ''as near perfection as possible."

SUCCESS WITH CHEESE

PREMIUM OF 20s A CWT.

LARGER QUANTITIES ORDERED [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] PALMERSTON NORTH. Wednesday The shipment of unsalted butter from New Zealand, which is reported by cablegram to have been received in London from Palmerston North, is a consignment of about 30 o6lb. boxes sent last November by the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Union Company. The sample was sent at the request of the London agents of the company, who stated that a shipment of unsalted, packed under the vacuum process, would find a ready demand in the British market. It was sent by the companv through New Zealand Dairy Products. Limited, whose chairman, Mr. T. Reynolds, is now in London arranging for a company there to handle all vacuum-packed goods from New Zealand. The business is practically settled and Mr. Reynolds is returning to New Zealand at the end of this mouth. On the matter being referred to Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., chairman of the Dairy Union, he expressed great pleasure at the result of the shipment. He stated that the great advantage of the system was that vacuum-packed butter in half-pound pats opened in the same condition as it was in when shipped. The Dairy Union had already sent small shipments under the vacuum process to India, San Francisco, and t);e Malay States and was awaiting reports thereon.

Some little time ago the company, on request, sent a small shipment of vacuum-packed cheese to England. After paying all charges, the return gave 20s "a cwt. over the ruling price of New Zealand cheese. The company's agents were so impressed that they requested that 10 times the quantity should at once be shipped. A portion had already gone forward. New Zealand Vacuum Products has erected a factory at Palmerston North, where it is handling dairy products. DOMINION DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS REPORTED [from OCR OWN- correspondent] PUKEKOHE. Wednesday Hope for better prices for New Zealand butter and cheese arises from developments in regard to vacuum packing. An organisation in Great Britain with resources amounting to £1,500,000 is at present treating with Vacuum Products (N.Z.), Limited, to take oyer the vacuum packing enterprise in New Zealand and extend it by the erection of 12 ney factories in various parts of the Dominion.

Negotiations are being conducted in London by Mr. Thomas Reynolds, chairman of directors of the New Zealand company, which has its headquarters at Palmerston North, where it recently established a vacuum packing factory following experimental work which extended over some years. News has been received in Pukekohe that excellent progress has been made in completing arrangements for the Home organisation to take over, and it is anticipated that Mr. Reynolds will sail before the end of the month on his return to New Zealand.

The development has followed the success which has attended,. the trial shipments of butter and cheese packed under the new method. These have been sent to London and to countries throughout the world. With a view to developing a market in the East, sample packages have been distributed throughout India and into Mesopotamia. Packed under vacuum, butter opens up as fresh as it leaves the churn. Cheese is left to mature, but keeps better in shipment. The latest consignment of vacuum-packed cheese to be sold overseas netted 20s per cwt. more than cheese in ordinary crates, while butter has consistently commanded a premium substantially in excess of the cost of packing under vacuum. As the New Zealand company has premises in College Hill, Auckland, it is considered probable that one of the 12 new factories will be established there.