MILK SHORTAGE FEARED
AUCKLAND CITY AREA SUPPLEM ENTARY, SUPPLY (Per Press Association ) AUCKLAND, this day. "We arc assured of enough milk f; v this week, but no one can say what will happen after that if the dry weather continues," said the secretary of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk'Council, Mr. Chapman, in. announcing that the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, had given permission for a supplementary supply to be obtained at once from certain farms in the Waiuku district. The milk would be pasteurised before distribution. Mr. Chapman said it would be perfectly safe. Although farm dairies were not registered for the town supply, he added, all the requirements had been met so far and an additional milk rest of a week at any rate. The trouble was that the pastures were drying up and the yield was falling everywhere. In four weeks the supply obtained by the four principal Auckland companies had decreased by 4600 gallons below the normal figure of about 24,000 gallons a day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 16
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169MILK SHORTAGE FEARED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 16
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