WORKLESS FAMILIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 14

WORKLESS FAMILIES

MILK AT 2D A PINT PROVISION IN BRITAIN . LONDON, Feb. 25. Families'in distressed areas are to receive milk at 2d. a pint, instead of 3d. and-3£d. a- pint, for the next 12 months. This has been made possible by negotiations between the Milk Marketing Hoard and - Mr; ‘P." Malcolm Stewart, one of the Commissioners for Distressed Areas. Me.j Stewart has allocated £EO,CCO from Ilia 'funds to assist the plan. * Mr, Thomas Baxter, chairman of the Milk Marketing _ Hoard, announced the scheme yesterday! lie said that it would apply only to unemployed families, and families certified by local authorities as being unable to pay for milk at the ordinary price. . A previous attempt to operate a scheme of this kind was frustrated by local distributors. They refused to take part in it. The board now offer tho distributors a margin of Bd. a gallon. This is to be paid out of the funds of the board and the Distressed Areas Commissioner.

If distributors refuse to work on this basis, the board, backed bv the Government, will seek to arrange for producerretailers to operate the scheme. The milk to be sold in the distressed areas is the surplus liquid milk which normally would be sold, for manufacturing purposes at Sint, a gallon. This milk is of exactly the same quality as. that retailed to the ordinary householder.