SHORTAGE OF MILK.
DRY WEATHER IN AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 20. . We are assured of enough milk for this week, but no one can sav what will happen after that if the dry weather continues,” said the secretary of tile Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, in announcing that the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Leo Martin) had given permission for a supplementary supply to he obtained at once from certain farms in the Wainku district. The trouble was that pastures were drying up and the yield was falling evervwhere. Tn four weeks lb' supplv obtained by the four principal Auckland distributing companies had jdecreased by 4600 gallons below tinnormal figure of about 24,000 a day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 2
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