TOWN MILK SUPPLY
RETURN TO PRODUCERS CRITICISED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 5. The formula governing the price of town supply milk, although incorporating the substantial increase granted recently, was still not sufficient to equate suppliers’ returns with those of cheese producers, said Mr J. J. Maher, M.P., at the annual meeting of the Town Milk Producers’ Federation. No allowance was made for extra working expenses. Mr Maher said that by bringing New Plymouth and Wanganui-Patea into the average, the Government had depressed the price. Very little town milk was sold in those areas, and they had been dragged in merely because of their low yield of cheese to a pound of butter-fat. For level supply, the formula was far too severe against the town milk producer, and the amount of surplus milk taken care of by the Government should be greater.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25566, 6 August 1948, Page 2
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