BRITAIN’S DAIRYING

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4180, 1 March 1934, Page 6

BRITAIN’S DAIRYING

HELP FOR PRODUCERS PRICE OF MILK FIXED (Per Press Association). Wellington, February 27 According to advice received by the Dairy Board, the British Government has announced its intention to guarantee a minimum price to British producers for milk manufactured into butter and cheese as follows:

Winter, October to March, 6d per gallon; summer, April to November. 5d per gallon. The advances for the two years commencing April 1 arc estimated at £1,500.000 yearly. They are to be repair, if possible, after April, 1936. but only if the price of cheese imported is equivalent to the minimum of 7d a gallon in winter and 6d in summer.

Tho scheme also provides for a sulsstantial grant with the object of increasing the consumption of liquid milk.