DAIRY BUTTER

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1946, Page 3

DAIRY BUTTER

ONLY SMALL SUPPLIES IN

CITIES

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 5. City and suburban grocers were being embarrassed by customers requesting supplies of dairy butter in lieu, of factory butter, said the Food and Rationing Controller, Mr. A. J. Costelloe, to-night. “It should be borne in mind,” he said, “that little if any dairy butter can be expected to be available in cities. The supply of dairy butter will be available principally to country districts.” An Auckland message states that little farm butter was available in the city or suburbs, nor was much expected. “Most suppliers of dairy butter are small allotmest holders in the outer suburbs with' a few cows,” said the manager of one Auckland concern handling dairy products. “The Government has insisted that all cream be supplied to factories. As a result of this attitude, mahy small holders got rid of their cows, and the quantity of farm butter must be well below pre-war figures,”