BUTTER AND CREAM
Reasons For Continuance Of Rationing STATEMENT BY MINISTER PA WELLINGTON, Oct. 12. The reasons for the retention of cream and butter rationing were given by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Nordmeyer. in an interview to-day. The effect of the removal of rationing upon the butter* available to people in the United Kingdom was given as the dominant reason. Notwithstanding the fact that in some areas cream rationing is not as strictly observed as it should be the Government, is satisfied from a recent survey that the maintenance of cream rationing has achieved the object of withholding from consumption in New Zealand butterfat which is otherwise made available to the people of the United Kingdom, said Mr Nordmeyer. It is not considered that the rationing of cream is any real hardship. The saving effected through its continuance is important in ensuring greater supplies of butter for the United Kingdom.
The new butter ration, together with the allowance for hotels and other priority users, will be approximately 32.5 pounds a head of the population. Butter and cream rationing will_ be continued for a further period until it is obvious that the butter and edible fats position in the United Kingdom has so improved as to make the continuance of rationing in New Zealand no longer necessary.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27210, 13 October 1949, Page 6
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