Raw Milk Sales
Sir, —Sales of raw milk last year totalled 2,673.109 gallons, according to the New Zealand Milk Board’s report Where did they go? Have we not been told all milk in New Zealand is sold pasteurised?—Yours, etc., WHAT EXCEPTIONS? May 17. 1960 [The New Zealand Milk Board’s annual report shows that 21,726 gallons of raw milk were sold in the Christchurch district. A spokesman in Christchurch for the Hew Zealand Milk Board said that this figure did not refer to the city but to the raw milk sold in such country towns in Canterbury as Waipara, Amberley, Oxford, Cust, Darfield, Leeston, Akaroa, and Diamond Harbour. In general, that would apply throughout the country and account for much of the total mentioned by the correspondent All milk sold retail in the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board’s area was pasteurised. the spokesman said. No official statement had ever been made that all milk sold in New Zealand was pasteurised.]
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29221, 3 June 1960, Page 3
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158Raw Milk Sales Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29221, 3 June 1960, Page 3
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