ANOTHER MINISTER'S CAUTION.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Issue 3941, 8 July 1918, Page 2

ANOTHER MINISTER'S CAUTION.

Dried milk was discussed briefly but importantly be the Minister of Lands (Hon. D. H. Guthrie) in reply to questions by a "Post" representative to-day.

"I have advised all who have approached me on the subject not to be led away by present prices into projects of big expenditure," said Mr Guthrie. "There is no question that the keen demand and the present high prices for dried milk products are due to the large orders of the Imperial authorities and a certain section of the community in the United States of America. It is a very debatable question whether, judging from the present position, the dried milk industry would realise anything like the present results later on. The continuance of a demand for the lower grades of dried milk appears to be very likely, because they we're used largely in America for confectionery purposes. But. outside of the persons who are intimately connected with the industry, there are few who have such information as would justify the expenditure of large sums in dried milk schemes at present."