CITY MILK PAYMENT
The farmers within the 30-mile area who supply milk to the Municipal Milk Depot will in a few days receive the first payment for milk at the rate provided by the recent award of Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M. The city has paid the Dairy Farmers' Association £6659 13s 6d for 751,332 quarts of milk supplied during October. This is approximately equivalent to 2.1 d per quart, but as the farmers have to carry the loss on surplus milk and the expense of maintaining an office, the actual pay-out to the farms will amount to a shade over li?d a quart, states the secretary of the association (Mr. JH, .Cracknelii.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1936, Page 10
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113CITY MILK PAYMENT Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1936, Page 10
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