SHORTAGE OF MILK IN AUCKLAND
Effect Of Dry Weather
By Telegraph—Press Association.
AUCKLAND, March 20.
“We are assured of enough milk for this week, but no one can say what will happen after that if the dry weather continues,” said the secretary of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, Mr. Chapman, in announcing that the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Lee Martin, had given permission for a supplementary supply to be obtained at once from certain farms in the Waiuku district. The milk would be pasteurized before distribution, Mr. Chapman said. It would be perfectly safe, though the farm dairies were not registered for town supply. He added that all the requirements had been met so far and the additional milk would suffice for the rest of the week at any rate. The trouble was that the pastures were drying up and the yield was falling everywhere. In four weeks the supply obtained by the four principal Auckland distributing companies had decreased by 4600 gallons below the normal figure of about 24,000 gallons a day.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 10
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