MANUFACTURE OF BUTTERBOXES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14784, 17 March 1910, Page 8

MANUFACTURE OF BUTTERBOXES.

NEW ZEALAND'S MARKET ASSURED. (Pes I'xited Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 16. Mr George Lush, chairman of directors of the Kauri Timber Company, who pays an annual vjsit to Auckland to confer with his brother directors in New Zealand, arrived by the Mongolia to-day, and in the course of an interview had something to say about the reported proposal to import Japanese and Polish timber to Australia for butter-box purposes. Up to the present the manufacture of butter boxes in Australasia has been practically monopolised by New Zealand kahikatea, which is eminently suited for the purpose owing to its nonodorous quality and its lightness, but according to Sydney experts a bid is about to be made against its supremacy. Mr Lush, however, is of opinion that the report lias very little ground for foundation. " Some buyer whose contract lias 'squeezed' him." he said, "may feel annoyed with the position and lias'begun to talk of opposition sources, or it may bo thai some speculative people have though!, of entering into, the buttcr-box-biisiiiei-j. but at present, it passes me to know now New Zealand timber is likely to be supplanted, as it so thoroughly fills the reqniremciils." Mr Lush,' in I act. considers (hat the whole rumour may be discounted very considerably.