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Southland Times, Issue 23379, 10 December 1937, Page 12

“It seems nothing but barefaced robbery,” commented Mr E. G. Appleton, chairman of directors of the Northern Wairoa Dairy Company, Limited, at the annual meeting when referring to the Government’s attitude towards the embargo on butter boxes. “In December 1935 we had orders placed for 200,000 boxes at 1/2 delivered to the factory,” he continued, “but last year we were told that an embargo would be placed on them at the end of July of this year. We have been in communication with the Minister, and we were represented at the conference in Hamilton when the matter was discussed with him. We were informed that our company would not be allowed to use boxes ordered without paying into the butter equalization fund a sum equal to 1/6 a box, a total of £l6OO, on the stocks held. It seems nothing but barefaced robbery that we should not be able to use the boxes unless we pay the Government £1600,” he said. “We will do all we can to use the boxes at the price we paid for them.”