BUTTER BOXES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 8

BUTTER BOXES

LIMITATION TO TWO TYPES REGULATIONS AMENDED MINISTER EXPLAINS ADVANTAGES [ Per Press Association. 1 WELLINGTON, Feb. 8. The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, announced today that he had approved of the drafting of a regulation which would amend the dairy produce general regulations to the effect that, beginning on August 1 next, the “standard” type of butter box would be deleted and leave a “sub-standard” and “Saranac” as the types which may thereafter be used as containers for butter for export. “It has been considered that for some time there have been too manj types of butter boxes,” said the Minister. “Difficulties of obtaining adequate supplies during the current and preceding season have made this position more manifest. Reduction of tne number of types to two, by the abandoning of the “standard” box otffers a number of advantages, amongst which are the following: (1) The saving of a large quantity of white pine timber annually; (2) simplifying the position for sawmillers and box-makers as regards the thickness of boards for use in box-making. For next season’s boxes only two thicknesses will require to be ordered instead of three for the current season; (3) a reduction in the percentage of broken boxes, as the “standard” box, being unwired, is more prone to damage than wired containers.”