Milk To Butter

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 3

Milk To Butter

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 27., There will be no waste milk now that the milk in schools scheme has ended—the milk will simply be converted into butter, as it has been in the past during school holidays. But butter is less profitable than milk. Under the school milk scheme, each child got half a pint.

It takes about 39 half-pints of milk to make lib of butter. The 39 half-pints are worth about 7s 9d. The pound of butter sells at 2s lOd. Town milk suppliers would therefore suffer a severe blow, said the secretary of the Town Milk Producers’ Federation (Mr V. S. Lynskey) today. “But no doubt there will be negotiations on reasonable compensations,” he said. We are confident that the Government will not expect town milk producers to carry any greater load than other sections of the community.” The drop in income would not be very severe at first, as the Goverment had given an assurance that contracts for the supply of milk, entered into on September 1, would be maintained until August 31. This means that the Government will continue to pay

the normal price for milk formerly supplied to schools, but the milk will be converted into butter.