Milk Kept Fresh For Six Months

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30680, 20 February 1965, Page 16

Milk Kept Fresh For Six Months

Great Britain was technically capable of showing New Zealand how to keep its entire milk production fresh for six months from the tiine the cows were milked, said the deputy British High Commissioner (Mr B. G. Smallman) in Christchurch yesterday. British scientists, he said, had recently produced a process which makes it possible for milk economically to be kept fresh, without deterioration of quality or appearance, for six months. Mr Smallman said the new process would enable British milk to be shinned to any part of the world. “I don’t suppose you people in New Zealand will be wanting to buy English milk,” he said. “But now that we have discovered the principle, you might find yourself making use of the know-how later on for your own domestic milk purposes and your own exports.

Asked what the process involved, Mr Smallman said: “I am not a scientist. But I am assured that British scientists have developed this process that is both efficient and economical.”

The six-month-old milk, he said, kept its taste, freshness, richness and “true milk appearance.” The process was but one example of present-day British inventiveness in science and industrial development. Asked about the 3000-mil-

lion dollars Great Britain had borrowed as a stand-by from international sources in support of sterling, Mr Smallman said: “Various measures have been taken to strengthen sterling. “Fairly recently there have been signs of increasing strength in London on the rates of sterling. Imports don’t wildly exceed exports as there had been a sign of their doing. A good deal of increased importing was in fact stockpiling and an increase in raw materials,” he said.

Mr Smallman said it was hoped the figures for the coming year would prove the raw material imports to be the material of Great Britain's exports, with the import bill largely paid off.

Mr and Mrs Smalhnan are visiting Christchurch for five days. They will represent the British High Commissioner (Sir lan Maclennan) at the opening of the Pan Pacific Arts Festival tomorrow.

On Tuesday evening they will give a supper party for the guest conductor of the Victorian Symphony Orchestra (Sir Malcolm Sargent).