STORING OF BUTTER
REPLY TO MINISTER
QUESTION OF WAR RESERVE
LONDON, November 3.
The "Daily Mail" says that leaders of the provisioning trade describe the statement by the Minister of Food, Mr. W. S. Morrison, that butter cannot be stored as nonsense. They suggest that the Government made inadequate efforts to lay in supplies.
One merchant said: "Does Mr. Morrison know that New Zealand butter can be kept for six to nine months? How does he 'suppose it travels across the world? Dominion supplies are at present ample. Moreover, New Zealand and Australia are having bumper seasons."
According to a Dublin message, the Government has prohibited the export of creamery butter because of market conditions. It offers to purchase stocks of creamery butter delivered to a central store.
In the House of Commons on Wednesday Mr. Mbrrison said that bacon and butter were perishable arid could not be stored, and therefore no reserve existed at the outbreak of the war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 13
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