BUTTER BOX POOL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 101, 30 April 1937, Page 8

BUTTER BOX POOL

REGULATIONS GAZETTED. UNIFORMITY OF PRICE AND SUPPLY VuiVEKS vi THE BOARD [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, April 29. Regulations issued under the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act, 1935, provide for the setting up of an Export Butter Box Pool in order to ensure, for all proprietors of manufacturing dairies in New Zealand, a regular supply of export butter boxes at a uniform price for each type of box.

The board shall be the sols and exclusive agent of every proprietor of a manufacturing dairy for the pur•x>se of purchasing export butter ooxes from licensees on behalf of every such proprietor. Accordingly, it shali not be lawful for any proprietor of a manufacturing dairy to purchase export butter boxes, save through the board as his agent. No proprietor of a manufacturing dairy shall pack butter intended for export beyond New Zealand, or ship butter for export beyond New Zealand in an export butter box which was not purchased by the board, as the agent of the proprietor, from a licensee in pursuance of these regulations.

The price to be paid to licensees for export butter boxes supplied under the regulations shall be fixed by the Minister in respect to each individual licensee for the particular type of export butter box so supplied, but the price so fixed may be a provisional price, subject to readjustment according to cost of timber. Proprietors of manufacturing dairies shall pay to the board for export butter boxes supplied under these regulations a uniform price, ex box factory, for each type of box to be ascertained each, season. The board, with the approval of the Minister, may place a contract or contracts, in any season with any manufacturer, or manufacturers, outside New Zealand for the supply of such quantities of export butter boxes as the Minister shall approve. Notwithstanding anything in the regulaI tions, the board shall have absolute discretion to permit the proprietor of any manufacturing dairy to obtain export butter boxes otherwise than as provided, and to use the same for packing and exporting butter from New Zealand in certain cases. No person shall manufacture export butter boxes, or export cheese crates in New Zealand except in pursuance of a licence issued under the provisions of the regulations.