BUTTERMILK POWDER
N.Z. PRODUCT SOUGHT BY BRITAIN “ FAVOURABLE” PRICE OFFERED (New Zealand Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 20. No fewer than 19 dairy companies in the Auckland province alone are to manufacture buttermilk powder and this by-product of butter-making is likely to assume an important place , among New Zealand’s exportable commodities. An offer by the British Ministry of Food to buy the powder on a bulk contract basis was made known to dairy company representatives by the chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Products Marketing Commission (Mr W. Marshall) at a meeting in Auckland to-day. • Although the price offered by the British Government for buttermilk powder was not disclosed, after the meeting it was described as “favourable.” Companies have been asked to notify the commission within four or five weeks whether they are prepared to accept the British offer.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25784, 21 April 1949, Page 4
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