DEARER CREA

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32635, 17 June 1971, Page 14

DEARER CREA

Price rise for winter

(N.Z. Presi Auoeiatton)

WELLINGTON, June 15. The winter price for cream will rise 4c a half pint on July 1 for the months of July and August. The Minister of Agriculture (Mr Carter) said today that during these months the retail prices for cream would be 20c a half-pint and 10c a quarter-pint. Cream would revert to its present price on September 1 for the summer months.

[ Mr Carter said the Gov--1 eminent had accepted a recommendation from the Milk Board that higher prices should be introduced for cream from May to August each year because of the high cost of producing cream for 1 town supply- in winter. “Some cream is derived from surplus milk paid for at town milk rates,” said the Minister. The higher price for this cream would slightly reduce the milk subsidy. But for cream produced at high cost in winter to supply domestic requirements, the benefit of the new prices would accrue to town milk producers who received considerably less for milk used for cream than for milk pro'duced for household supply.