PRICE OF BUTTER BOXES
ADVICE OF INCREASE MANUFACTURERS' CONCERN [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Wednesday A circular advising an increase in the price of butter-boxes has been received by a number of Waikato dairy factories from tho Butter i!ox Manufacturers' Association. It was pointed out in the circular that present prices had boon investigated by a special committee set up to inquire into tho position, and new prices would apply. An official of one co-operative dairy factory stated to-day that there would apparently bo a substantial riso in the price of butter boxes. Last autumn the company was charged Is ljd on trucks at the mills, but the beginning of this season tho price was raised to Is 5d a box. Tho circular now indicated that tho future price would be Is Bd. It was understood, he said, that the box manufacturers would supply tho companies at a uniform rate and would charge the Dairy Board. Although apparently the Dairy Board had been approached in the inquiry the companies themselves had not been directly consulted. The higher price of boxes would mean an increase of £1 5s in every ton of butter manufactured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22574, 12 November 1936, Page 14
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